Examples: a droll little man with a quiet tongue-in-cheek kind of humor
droll (English)└── drôle (French) └── drolle (Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)) └── drolle (Old French (842-ca. 1400)) └── drol (Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)) └── troll (Old Norse)
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