Troms

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian Troms.

Proper noun

Troms (uncountable)

  1. A county of Norway (between 2020 to 2024 Troms and Finnmark were merged into Troms og Finnmark county).

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse Trums f (“Tromsøya”), originally the name of an island, possibly from straumr (“stream, current, tide”). Doublet of Tromsø.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Troms

  1. A county in Northern Norway (between 2020 to 2024 Troms and Finnmark were merged into Troms og Finnmark county).

Descendants

  • → Finnish: Tromssa
  • → Northern Sami: Romsa

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • Trums (alternative spelling)

Etymology

Originally the name of what’s now called Tromsøya; from Old Norse Trums, possibly from Proto-Germanic *trumisō.[1] Also theorised to come from *Strums, from an ablaut form of straumr (“current, stream”). Cognate with Icelandic Trums.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Troms f

  1. a county in Northern Norway (between 2020 to 2024 Troms and Finnmark were merged into Troms og Finnmark county).

Derived terms

  • Tromsøya

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)
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