caroling
/ˈkæɹəlɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.02 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A descendant of Charles Martel; a Carolingian.
Example Sentences
- "1958, Brenda Lee, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree Later we'll have some pumpkin pie / And we'll do some caroling."
- "The wonderful house of the Carolings, which produced no less than five successive rulers of genius […]"
- "The Carolings still spoke German, and had small love for France; […]"
- "It was the first step towards concentrating the attention of Europe on the Carolings as inheritors of the imperial idea; for the idea had never died out, though the emperors themselves were gone."
- "THE FALL OF THE MEROVINGS AND THE RISE OF THE CAROLINGS"
- "The Capetian king had a limited localised power, a power that in due course could become national; and if he looked back, like the Carolings, to the traditions of imperial monarchy and order, he had no temptation to look back, as the Carolings were bound to look back, to the imperial ideas of universal dominion."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂-der. Proto-Germanic *karaz Proto-Germanic *karilaz Proto-West Germanic *karil Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kʷo-der.? Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Germanic *-īnaz Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz ? Proto-Germanic *-ingaz Proto-West Germanic *-ing Medieval Latin Carolingusbor. English Caroling From Medieval Latin Carolingus, from a Frankish patronymic ultimately composed of Proto-West Germanic *karil + *-ing. By surface analysis, Carolus + -ing.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Carolingus, -, *karil
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈkæɹəlɪŋ/
Usage
- American usage