Earl
[url] /ɜrl/
noun
1.
a British nobleman of a rank below that of marquis and above that of viscount: called count for a time after the Norman conquest. The wife of an earl is a countess.
2.
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a governor of one of the great divisions of England, including East Anglia, Mercia, Northumbria, and Wessex.
[url] /ɜrl/
noun
1.
a male given name: from the old English word meaning “noble.”.
/ɜːl/
noun
1.
(in the British Isles) a nobleman ranking below a marquess and above a viscount Female equivalent countess
2.
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a royal governor of any of the large divisions of the kingdom, such as Wessex
n.
Old English eorl “brave man, warrior, leader, chief” (contrasted with ceorl “churl”), from Proto-Germanic *erlo-z, of uncertain origin.
In Anglo-Saxon poetry, “a warrior, a brave man;” in later Old English, “nobleman,” especially a Danish under-king (equivalent of cognate Old Norse jarl), then one of the viceroys under the Danish dynasty in England. After 1066 adopted as the equivalent of Latin comes (see count (n.)).
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