Proto-Norse

English

Etymology

From proto- +‎ Norse.

Proper noun

Proto-Norse

An Indo-European language spoken in Scandinavia and ancestral to Old Norse that evolved from Proto-Germanic over the first centuries AD.

Synonyms

Ancient Nordic
Old Scandinavian
Primitive Norse
Proto-Nordic
Proto-North Germanic
Proto-Scandinavian

Translations

Indo-European language

Danish: urnordisk n
Dutch: Oernoords n
Esperanto: praskandinava lingvo
Faroese: frumnorrønt n
Finnish: kantaskandinaavi (fi)
French: proto-norrois m
Galician: protonórdico m
German: Urnordisch (de) n
Icelandic: frumnorræna f
Italian: proto-norreno m
Norwegian: urnordisk
Swedish: urnordiska (sv) c

See also

Wiktionary’s coverage of Proto-Norse terms

Anagrams

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