Carling

See also: carling

English

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Carling (disambiguation)

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːlɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)lɪŋ

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂-der.

Proto-Germanic *karaz

Proto-Germanic *karilaz

Proto-West Germanic *karil

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.

Noun

Carling (plural Carlings)

1. Alternative form of Caroling (“a descendant of Charles Martel; a Carolingian”)
   • 1882, Charlotte M. Yonge, A Pictorial History of the World's Great Nations, volume 2, page 569:

     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.

   • 1884, The Academy, volume 25, page 413:

     The Carlings, on the other hand, had few possessions, but unlimited pretensions to empire, and stood forth as the opponents of the growing spirit of feudalism, the subdivision of property and jurisdiction, and as the upholders of unity, centralisation, and Roman traditions.

   • 1893, The Bay State Monthly, page 414:

     Hugh Capet, Duke of France, mounted the throne of the Carlings in 987.

   • 1897, Guy Carleton Lee, Hincmar: An Introduction to the Study of the Revolution in the Organization of the Church in the Ninth Century, page 238:

     With the successors of Charles the Great the dynasty of the Carlings began its downward course.

Derived terms

• Carlingian

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Carling (countable and uncountable, plural Carlings)

1. A surname.
2. A township in Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada.
3. A commune in Moselle department, Grand Est, France.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Carling is the 29768^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 790 individuals. Carling is most common among White (93.54%) individuals.

See also

• Carlin

French

Proper noun

Carling m or f

1. a surname, Carling

See also

• Carlin