Etymologically

Old Norse etymology in numbers

Counted from the etymologies of the 1 Old Norse entry in this dictionary, and recounted every few hours as entries are added. See also Old Norse words by origin.

Borrowed, inherited or formed

Each entry counted once: as borrowed if its etymology names a language it was taken from, else as inherited, else as formed within Old Norse.

  • Borrowed 0% · 0 taken from another language
  • Inherited 100% · 1 passed down from an ancestor of Old Norse
  • Formed in Old Norse 0% · 0 compounds and derivatives of its own words
  • Not traced yet 0% · 0 no etymology links yet

Ultimate origins by language family

Where the 1 traced word end up when their etymologies are followed back as far as they go, from entry to entry, grouped into families and the branches of Indo-European.

  1. Germanic 1 · 100% Proto-Norse 1

When the words arrived

The 1 entry with a first-attestation date, by century and by the language each was borrowed from. Browse the words of each century →

  • Inherited or formed
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CenturyInherited or formedTotal
10th century11

Words other languages took from Old Norse

231 entries of other languages in this dictionary were borrowed from Old Norse or its earlier stages.

  1. English 226 blaze, scarf, down, flake
  2. French 3 vague, lieu, but
  3. Latin 1 gunna
  4. Old English 1 lagu

Most prolific roots

The words that the most Old Norse entries go back to, at the far end of their etymologies.

  1. 1 Proto-Norse ᛊᛏᚨᛁᚾᚨᛉ → steinn