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Carling
Definitions
- 1 A surname. countable, uncountable
- 2 A township in Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada. countable, uncountable
- 3 A commune in Moselle department, Grand Est, France. countable, uncountable
- 1 Alternative form of carline (“old woman”). alt-of, alternative
- 2 A piece of squared timber fitted fore-and-aft between the deck beams of a wooden ship to provide support for the deck planking.
- 3 A cultivar of field pea or maple pea, dried, soaked, boiled, then fried.
- 4 Alternative form of Caroling (“a descendant of Charles Martel; a Carolingian”) alt-of, alternative
"Lothar died soon after, in 986; and though his son Louis V. was crowned, he only lived a year, and when he died in 987, the great counts and dukes met in consultation with the chief of the clergy, and agreed that, as the Counts of Paris were the real heads of the State, and nobody cared for the Carlings, it would be better to do like the Germans, and pass over the worn-out Carlings, who spoke old Frank, while the Paris Counts spoke the altered Latin, which came to be called French."
Etymology
See carline.
Compare French carlingue, which may be from the English.
From care + -ling (synchronically), being connected to the custom of serving these peas to the poor on Care Sunday, called also Carling Sunday after the peas.
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 Carlingusbor. English Carling From Medieval Latin Carlingus, from a Frankish patronymic ultimately composed of Proto-West Germanic *karil + *-ing. By surface analysis, Carl + -ing. Cognate with Middle High German Kärling, Middle French Carlinge.
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