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ark.

a sheet (of paper)

3 characters1 syllables approx.Dansk language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈɑːɡ̊]
  1. a sheet (of paper)

    neuter
Where this word comes from

Via Middle Low German ark from Latin arcus. The Latin words means "bow", but it is here used in a wider sense of the folded paper. Compare the same semantic development in German Bogen (“bow; sheet of paper”).

noun[ˈɑːɡ̊]
  1. ark (Noah's Ark or the Ark of the Convenant)

    common-gender
Where this word comes from

From Old Danish ark, Old Norse ǫrk, from Proto-Germanic *arkō, borrowed from Latin arca (“chest, coffin; ark”).

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