scheme is detailed in the Wikipedia article on <span class="searchmatch">Old</span> <span class="searchmatch">Norse</span> orthography. There is some uncertainty <span class="searchmatch">about</span> the letter ę, which is sometimes used in normalised...
Proto-<span class="searchmatch">Norse</span> is the earliest attested Germanic language, and the earliest ancestor of <span class="searchmatch">Old</span> <span class="searchmatch">Norse</span>, thus also the earliest attested ancestor of the North Germanic...
Example: hus From <span class="searchmatch">Old</span> <span class="searchmatch">Norse</span> hús. IPA(key): /hʉːs/ hus n house Layout1 (definite singular, indefinite plural, definite plural) hus From <span class="searchmatch">Old</span> <span class="searchmatch">Norse</span> hús. hus n house...
tjyv 4 m A layabout. From <span class="searchmatch">Old</span> <span class="searchmatch">Norse</span> dagavillr, dagvillr; equivalent to dag (“day”) + vill (“confused, lost.”). 4 confused <span class="searchmatch">about</span>, misremembering or misspeaking...
unchanged, apart from vowel length marked by acutes as in normalized <span class="searchmatch">Old</span> <span class="searchmatch">Norse</span>. The primary sources are: The law of the Gutes (Guta lag) The history...
(preterite skjöttä, supine skjöttä) (transitive, of cats) to lurk From <span class="searchmatch">Old</span> <span class="searchmatch">Norse</span> sjalfs, genitive of sjalfr. Cognate with and used in the same way as Norwegian...
haven’t heard anything <span class="searchmatch">about</span> it jä hadd som en lömt om ä ― I had a feeling <span class="searchmatch">about</span> it A glimpse, shadow. Unknown. Possibly from <span class="searchmatch">Old</span> <span class="searchmatch">Norse</span> *lyðra, from Proto-Germanic...
alternative form of dänn dän, den IPA(key): [d̥ɛ́nː] Rhymes: -ɛ́nː From <span class="searchmatch">Old</span> <span class="searchmatch">Norse</span> þínn, from Proto-Germanic *þīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *téynos. 5...
See Wiktionary:Todo/Westrobothnian cleanup for more information. From <span class="searchmatch">Old</span> <span class="searchmatch">Norse</span> svefn, from Proto-Germanic *swefnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *swepno-...
cleanup for more information. brȧtt + fall 3 n steep fall of a stream From <span class="searchmatch">Old</span> <span class="searchmatch">Norse</span> brea, brjá (“to gleam, shine.”) Compare Norwegian Nynorsk brjå (“flash...