Norn

See also: norn

English

Etymology 1

Baldr's Death by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1817. The three Norns and the tree Yggdrasil can be seen in the background.

Noun

Norn (plural Norns)

(Norse mythology) Any of the three goddesses of fate or destiny.

Synonyms

(goddess of fate or destiny): Fate (Greek mythology)
(extinct North Germanic language): Shetlandish

Meronyms

Urd (“Fate” or “Past”)
Verdandi (“Happening” or “Present”)
Skuld (“Debt” or “Future”)

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Old Norse norrœnn (“northern, Norse”)

Proper noun

Norn

An extinct North Germanic language once spoken on the Shetland and Orkney Islands.

Translations

language

Afrikaans: Norn
Asturian: norn m
Belarusian: норн m (norn)
Breton: norneg m
Catalan: norn m
Czech: nornština f
Danish: norn n
Dutch: Norn (nl) n
Faroese: norn n
Finnish: norni
French: norne (fr) m

Icelandic: norn (is) n
Irish: Nórnais f
Manx: Nornish
Norwegian:
Bokmål: norn n

Nynorsk: norn n
Russian: норн m (norn)
Scots: Norn
Scottish Gaelic: Nòrnais f
Swedish: norn (sv)
Turkish: Nornca

Further reading

Ethnologue entry for Norn, nrn

Middle English

Etymology

From Norrene.

Adjective

Norn

Related or pertaining to Norway; Norwegian

Synonyms

References

“Noreine (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-01.

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.