Linguistic Archaeology: Troll

 Troll in almost every language

1. Troll
2. Trol
3. tiroli
4. alqizm
5. *L (assamese)
6. Troĺ
7. Ṭrala
8. *L* (bhojpuri)
9. Jù mó
10. Trold
11. troal
12. *LA* (dogri)
13. Trolo (esperanto)
14. Peikko
15. t’roli
16. Gígas
17. Ṭrōla
18. *MD (hebrew)
19. Manó
20. Tröll
21. Torōru
22. Ṭrōl
23. *LARP (konkani)
24. teulol
25. Troglodytarum (latin)
26. Trollis
27. *L (maithili)
28. ṭrēāḷ
29. mhain hcar
30. TR*L (pashto)
31. TR*L (persian)
32. Revenire
33. Troll'
34. *L (sanskrit)
35. T*AL (sindhi)
36. Pūtam
37. TPOLL (tatar)
38. Thor ll̒
39. Trolʹ
40. TR*L (urdu)
41. Chơi khăm
42. Trolio




Popularity of Use
A      %     E     %      I      %     O      %       U        %
14 34%    4   9%     10 24%  23 56%      5    12%

B      %     C     %      D      %     F      %       G        %
0    0%      2   4%      3    7%    0    0%       2      4%

H      %     J     %      K      %     L      %       M        %
3     7%     1   2%     2    4%     31 75%     8     19%

N      %     P     %      Q      %     R      %       S        %
3     7%    4    9%      1   2%     25 60%      2      4%

T      %     V     %      W      %     X      %       Y        %
26 63%    1   2%      0     0%     0    0%       1     2%

Z      %
1   2%



Popularity of use
75% L:
63% T, L: *L (assamese), *L* (bhojpuri), *L (maithili), *L (sanskrit),
60% R, T, L: TR*L (pashto), TR*L (persian), TR*L (urdu),
56% O, R, T, L: Troll', Trolʹ, Trolo (esperanto), Tröll, Ṭrōl, Troĺ, Troll, Trol,
34% A, O, R, T, L: Ṭrōla, T*AL (sindhi), troal, *LA* (dogri), Ṭrala,
24% I, A, O, R, T, L: t’roli, Trolio, tiroli,
19% M, I, A, O, R, T, L:
12% U, M, I, A, O, R, T, L: Torōru,
9% P, E, U, M, I, A, O, R, T, L: Pūtam, TPOLL (tatar), *LARP (konkani), teulol, ṭrēāḷ,
7% N, H, D, P, E, U, M, I, A, O, R, T, L: *MD (hebrew), Manó, Thor ll̒, Trold,
4% S, K, G, C, N, H, D, P, E, U, M, I, A, O, R, T, L: mhain hcar, Chơi khăm, Gígas, Trollis, Peikko,
2% Z, Y, V, Q, J, S, K, G, C, N, H, D, P, E, U, M, I, A, O, R, T, L: Troglodytarum (latin), Revenire, alqizm, Jù mó,
0% B, X, W, F


Earliest partial Trolls are 63%-69% with first tull Troll encounters at 56%. This marks Peak Troll encounters. This then declines to a bandgap at 19%. Trolls become popular at 12% declining around 2%.

It it part of the L linguistic group or a low dataset anomaly?