- List of English words of Old Norse origin
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LiteratureAncestorsWords of Old Norse origin that have entered the English language, primarily from the colonisation of eastern and northern England between 865–954 CE (see e.g. Danelaw). Old Norse (abbreviated in dictionaries as ON) existed in its spoken and written form from c. 100 CE, until its spread from Scandinavia to colonies as far west as Greenland and far east as Russia and the Baltic region (spoken by Swedish settlers).
The language diverged into West Norse (Norway, Faroe Islands, Iceland, and Greenland) and East Norse (Denmark and Sweden). With some minor regional variations in loan words, both West Norse and East Norse are essentially the same. The Vikings who raided and later settled in Great Britain came mainly from Norway and Denmark.
Note: this list is incomplete. Some of these words (such as "Ragnarök") are much later borrowings used to discuss Old Norse concepts.
Contents A
- ado
- influenced by Norse "at" ("to", infinitive marker) which was used with English "do" in certain English dialects[1]
- aloft
- á ("=in, on, to") + lopt ("=air, atmosphere, sky, heaven, upper floor, loft")[2]
- English provenance = c 1200 CE
- angr ("=trouble, affliction"); root ang (="strait, straitened, troubled"); related to anga, plural öngur (="straits, anguish")[3]
- English provenance = c 1250 CE
- agi ("=terror")[4]
- English provenance = c 1205 CE (as aȝe, an early form of the word resulting from the influence of Old Norse on an existing Anglo-Saxon form, eȝe)
- are
- merger of Old English (earun, earon) and Old Norse (er) cognates[5]
- awkward
- the first element is from Old Norse öfugr ("=turned-backward"), the '-ward' part is from Old English weard[6]
- axle
- öxl ("=ox tree")[7]
B
- bag
- baggi[8]
- bairn
- barn (="child")[9]
- bait
- beita[10]
- ball
- bǫllr" (="round object")[11]
- band
- band (="rope")[12]
- bark
- bǫrkr[13]
- bask
- baðask reflex. of baða "bathe" (baðast, baða sig)[14]
- berserk
- berserkr, lit. 'bear-shirt', (alt. berr-serkr, 'bare-shirt') frenzied warriors[15]
- billow
- bylgja[16]
- birth
- byrðr[17]
- bleak
- bleikr (="pale")[18]
- blunder
- blundra (="shut one's eye")[19]
- both
- baðir[20]
- bug
- búkr (="insect within tree trunks")[21]
- bulk
- bulki[22]
- bull
- boli[23]
- bylaw
- bylög ('by'=village; 'lög'=law; 'village-law')[24]
C
- cake
- kaka (="cake")[25]
- call
- kalla (="cry loudly")[26]
- cast
- kasta (="to throw")[27]
- clip
- klippa(="to cut")[28]
- club
- klubba (="cudgel")[29]
- crawl
- krafla (="to claw")[30]
- crook
- krokr (="hook-shaped instrument or weapon")[31]
- cur
- kurra (="to growl")[32]
D
- Day
- dagr (="day")[33]
- die
- deyja (="pass away")[34]
- dirt
- drit (="feces")[35]
- dregs
- dregg (="sediment")[36]
E
F
- fellow
- felagi[38]
- flat
- flatr[39]
- flit
- flytja (="cause to fit")[40]
- fog
- from Old Norse fok through Danish fog, meaning "spray", "shower", "snowdrift"[41]
- forcasten
- forkasta (= "to cast away, reject")
- freckle
- freknur (="freckles")[42]
G
- gad
- gaddr (="rod, long stick")[43][44]
- gap
- gap (="chasm")[45]
- garth
- garðr (="garden")[46]
- gauntlet
- vǫttr (="armored glove")("let" denotes "little")[47]
- gawk
- from Middle English gawen, from Old Norse ga (="to heed")[48]
- get
- geta, gat (> got), gittan (> gotten)[49]
- geyser
- from Icelandic geysir, from Old Norse geysa (="to gush")[50]
- gift
- gift (="dowry")[51]
- girth
- gjörð (="circumference, cinch")[52]
- give
- gefa (="to give")[53]
- glitter
- glitra (="to glitter")[54]
- gosling
- gæslingr" (="goose")[55]
- guest
- gestr (="guest")[56]
- gun
- from Old Norse Gunnhildr (female name, both elements of the name, gunn and hildr, have the meaning "war, battle")[57]
- gust
- gustr (="gust")[58]
H
- haggle
- haggen (="to chop")[59]
- hail
- heill (="health, prosperity, good luck")[60]
- hammer (noun)
- hamarr (="tool with a stone head")[61]
- hap, happy
- happ (="chance, good luck, fate")[62]
- heathen
- heiðinn (="not Christian or Jewish/ the word for an exclusively Christian idea, a person or society prior to Christianity.")[63]
- Hell
- May be in part from Old Norse Hel, the daughter of Loki and ruler of the underworld in Norse mythology.[64]
- hit
- hitta (="to find")[65]
- how
- haugr (="barrow, small hill") Usage preserved mainly in place names[66]
- husband
- husbondi (="master of the house")[67]
I
J
- jökulhlaup
- from Icelandic jökulhlaup from Old Norse jǫkull and hlaup.
K
L
- lad
- ladd (="young man")[74]
- lathe
- hlaða (="to load")[75]
- law
- *lagu[76]
- leg
- leggr[77]
- likely
- líkligr[78]
- link
- *hlenkr[79]
- litmus
- litmose (="lichen for dying", lita ="to stain")[80]
- loan
- lán (="to lend")[81]
- loft
- lopt (="an upper room or floor : attic, air, sky")[82]
- loose
- lauss (="loose/free")[83]
- low
- lagr[84]
M
- mire
- myrr (='bog')[85]
- mistake
- mistaka (="miscarry")[86]
- muck
- myki (="cow dung")[87]
- mug
- mugge[88]
- muggy
- mugga (="drizzle, mist")[89]
N
- Night
- "Nótt"[90]
- Norman, Normandy
- from Old Norse through Old French, meaning "northman", due to Viking settlement in Normandy region[91]
- Norse
- from Old Norse through Dutch noorsch, noordsch, noord (="north, northern")[92]
O
- oaf
- alfr (="elf")[93]
- odd
- oddi (="third number", "the casting vote")[94]
- Odin
- Óðinn[95]
- ombudsman
- from Old Norse umboðsmaðr through Swedish ombudsman, meaning "commissary", "representative", "steward"[96]
- outlaw
- utlagi[97]
P
R
- Ragnarök
- "Doom of the gods" or "Destiny of the gods", from Norse mythology & ON word of same meaning, composed of words ragna, genitive of "the great powers"(regin), and rǫk (later rök) "destiny, doom, fate, end". Often erroneously rendered "Twilight of the Gods" after Richard Wagner's opera Götterdämmerung, based on the mythological event.[99]
- race
- rás (="to race", "to run", "to rush", "to move swift")[100]
- raft
- raptr (="log")[101]
- raise
- reisa[102]
- ransack
- rannsaka (="to search thoroughly")[103]
- reindeer
- hreindyri[104]
- rid
- rythja (="to clear land")[105]
- rive
- rífa (="to scratch, plow, tear")[106]
- root
- rót[107]
- rotten
- rotinn (="decayed")[108]
- rugged
- rogg (="shaggy tuft")[109]
- run
- renna (="to run")[110]
S
- saga
- saga (="story, tale")[111]
- sale
- sala[112]
- same
- same, samr (="same")[113]
- scale
- (for weighing) from skal (="bowl, drinking cup", or in plural "weighing scale" referring to the cup or pan part of a balance) in early English used to mean "cup"[114]
- scant
- skamt & skammr (="short, lacking")[115]
- scare
- skirra (="to frighten)[116]
- scarf
- skarfr (="fastening joint") (interestingly, "scarf" and "scarves" have been reintroduced to modern Swedish[citation needed] in their English forms)[117]
- scathe
- skaða (="to hurt, injure")[118]
- score
- skor (="notch"; "twenty")[119]
- scrape
- skrapa (="to scrape, erase")[120]
- scrap
- skrap (="scraps, trifles") from skrapa[121]
- seat
- sæti (="seat, position")[122]
- seem
- sœma (="to conform")[123]
- shake
- skaka (="to shake")[124]
- skate
- skata (="fish")[125]
- skid
- probably from or related to Old Norse skið (="stick of wood") and related to "ski" (="stick of wood", or in this sense "snowshoe")[126]
- skill
- skil (="distinction")[127]
- skin
- skinn (="animal hide")[128]
- skip
- skopa (="to skip, run)[129]
- skirt
- skyrta (="shirt")[130]
- skull
- skulle (="head")[131]
- sky
- ský (="cloud")[132]
- slant
- sletta, slenta (="to throw carelessly")[133]
- slaughter
- *slahtr (="butchering")[134]
- slaver
- slafra (="slaver")[135]
- sledge
- sleggja (="sledgehammer")[136]
- sleight
- slœgð[137]
- sleuth
- sloð (="trail")[138]
- sly
- sloegr (="cunning, crafty, sly")[139]
- snare
- snara (="noose, snare")[140]
- snub
- snubba (="to curse")[141]
- sprint
- spretta (="to jump up")[142]
- stagger
- stakra (="to push")[143]
- stain
- steina (="to paint")[144]
- stammer
- stemma (="to hinder, damn up")[145]
- steak
- steik, steikja (="to fry")[146]
- sting
- stinga (="to sting")[147]
- sway
- sveigja (="to bend, swing, give way")[148]
T
- take
- taka[149]
- tarn
- tjörn, tjarn[150]
- their
- þierra[151]
- they
- þeir[152]
- thorp
- þorp[153]
- though
- from Old English þēah, and in part from Old Norse þó (="though")[154]
- thrall
- þræll[155]
- Thursday
- Þorsdagr (="Thor's day")[156]
- thrift
- þrift (="prosperity")[157]
- thrust
- þrysta (="to thrust, force")[158]
- thwart
- þvert (="across")[159]
- tidings
- tíðindi (="news of events")[160]
- tight
- þéttr (="watertight, close in texture, solid")[161]
- till
- til (="to, until")[162]
- troll
- troll (="giant, fiend, demon"; further etymology is disputed)[163]
- trust
- traust (="help, confidence")[164]
U
- ugly
- uggligr (="dreadful")[165]
- until
- from Old Norse und (="as far as, up to") and til (="until, up to")[166]
V
- Vanadium
- from Old Norse Vanads, another name for Freja[167]
- viking
- vikingr (="one who came from the fjords")[168]
W
- wand
- vondr (="rod")[169]
- want
- vanta (="to lack")[170]
- weak
- veikr (="weak, pliant")[171]
- whirl
- hvirfla (="to go around")[172]
- whisk
- viska (="to plait")[173]
- wight
- vigr (="able in battle") – the other wight meaning "man" is from Old English[174]
- wile
- vél (="trick, craft, fraud")[175]
- window
- vindauga (="wind-eye") – although gluggi was more commonly used in Old Norse[176]
- wing
- vængr (="a wing")[177]
- wrong
- rangr (="crooked, wry, wrong")[178]
Y
- Yggdrasil
- Yggdrasill[179]
- yule
- jol ("A heathen feast upon the winter solstice, later appropriated by Christianity.") [180]
See also
- Lists of English words of international origin
- List of English words of Scandinavian origin
- List of English words of Swedish origin
- List of English words of Norwegian origin
- Old Norse language
- Old Norse orthography
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- ^ "Raise". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=raise. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Ransack". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=ransack. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Reindeer". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=reindeer. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
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- ^ "Rugged". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=rugged. Retrieved 14 October 2010.
- ^ "Run". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=run. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Saga". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=saga. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Sale". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=sale. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Same". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=same. Retrieved 21 July 2010.
- ^ "Scale". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=scale. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Scant". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=scant. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Scare". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=scare. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Scarf". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=scarf. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Scathe". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=scathe. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Score". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=score. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Scrape". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=scrape. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Scrap". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=scrap. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Seat". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=seat. Retrieved 14 October 2010.
- ^ "Seem". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=seem. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Shake". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=shake. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Skate". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=skate. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Skid". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=skid. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Skill". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=skill. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Skin". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=skin. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Skip". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=skip. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Skirt". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=skirt. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Skull". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=skull. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Sky". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=sky. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Slant". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=slant. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Slaughter". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=slaughter. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Slaver". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=slaver. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Sledge". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=sledge. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Sleight". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=sleight. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Sleuth". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=sleuth. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Sly". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=sly. Retrieved 21 July 2010.
- ^ "Snare". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=snare. Retrieved 25 August 2010.
- ^ "Snub". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=snub. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Sprint". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=sprint. Retrieved 14 October 2010.
- ^ "Stagger". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=stagger. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Stain". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=stain. Retrieved 27 October 2010.
- ^ "Stammer". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=stammer. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Steak". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=steak. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Sting". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=sting. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Sway". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=sway. Retrieved 27 October 2010.
- ^ "Take". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=take. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Tarn". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=tarn. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Their". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=their. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "They". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=they. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Thorp". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=thorp. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Though". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=though. Retrieved 21 July 2010.
- ^ "Thrall". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=ado. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Thursday". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=thursday. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Thrift". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=thrift. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Thrust". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=thrust. Retrieved 21 July 2010.
- ^ "Thwart". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=thwart. Retrieved 21 July 2010.
- ^ "Tidings". Oxford University Press. http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/view/entry/m_en_gb0863790#m_en_gb0863790. Retrieved 25 August 2010.
- ^ "Tight". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=tight. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
- ^ "Till". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=till. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Troll". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=troll. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Trust". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=trust. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Ugly". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=ugly. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Until". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=until. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Vanadium". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=vanadium. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Viking". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=viking. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
- ^ "Wand". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=wand. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Want". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=want. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Weak". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=weak. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Whirl". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=whirl. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Whisk". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=whisk. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Wight". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=wight. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Wile". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=wile. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Window". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=window. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Wing". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=wing. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Wrong". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=wrong. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
- ^ "Yggdrasil". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=yggdrasil. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ^ "Yule". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=yule. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
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