Troms
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Norwegian Troms.
Proper noun
Troms (uncountable)
- 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
- A county in Northern Norway (between 2020 to 2024 Troms and Finnmark were merged into Troms og Finnmark county).
Descendants
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
- A county in Northern Norway (between 2020 to 2024 Troms and Finnmark were merged into Troms og Finnmark county).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)