800s

Old Norse words first recorded in the 9th century

1 Old Norse word whose earliest known written record dates from the 9th century, earliest first. Words dated only to part of the century follow the ones with a year.

1. karl

   900–999

   It is inherited from Proto-Germanic *karlaz (“man”), which de Vries takes as the base form of the Norse word. The Swedish runic form ⟨karilʀ⟩ points instead to a variant *karilaz, the form…

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