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1400s

Old Norse words first recorded in the 15th century

2 Old Norse words whose earliest known written record dates from the 15th century, earliest first. Words dated only to part of the century follow the ones with a year.

  1. fylja

    1407

    It belongs with foli (“foal”) and fyl (“foal”); Etymonline calls it the feminine of “foli” and traces it to Proto-Germanic *fuljo, from Proto-Indo-European *pau- (“few, little”). The Pokorny root is…

  2. nór

    1500

    It is inherited from Proto-Germanic *nōwaz (“ship”), a word kept only in Norse, where de Vries gives the Proto-Norse form as *nōwa. Old English had the agent noun Old English nōwend (“skipper…

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