The story
- Proto-Germanic · derived from*krankaz“crooked”
- Old Norse · derived fromkraki“crooked dead tree, wooden drag/grapnel”
- Norwegian · borrowed fromkraken
- English todayKraken
Borrowed from Norwegian kraken (Bokmål entry; Nynorsk entry), definite singular of krake (“crooked dead tree, wooden drag/grapnel”) (Bokmål entry; Nynorsk entry), both from Old Norse kraki (“crooked dead tree, wooden drag/grapnel”, literally “crookie: something with crooks/hooks”), from Proto-Germanic *krankaz (“crooked”).
Words from the same roots
Norwegiankraken all →
Kraken Mare
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.