Old Norse

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Alternative forms

• (abbreviation) ON.

Proper noun

Old Norse

1. The language of Scandinavia until the 14th century, the common ancestor of modern Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Faroese, and Icelandic.

Synonyms

• Norse

Translations

language of Scandinavia before 1400 CE

Armenian: հին հյուսիսային լեզու (hy) (hin hyusisayin lezu) Catalan: nòrdic antic (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 古諾斯語／古诺斯语 (Gǔnuòsīyǔ), 古諾斯語／古诺斯语 (gǔ nuòsīyǔ), 古諾爾斯語／古诺尔斯语 (gǔnuò'ěrsīyǔ) Czech: stará severština f Danish: oldnordisk (da) n, norrønt (da) n Dutch: Oudnoords (nl) n, (somewhat proscribed) Oudnoors (nl) n Esperanto: malnovnordlanda lingvo, norena lingvo Estonian: vanapõhja keel Faroese: norrønt (fo) n Finnish: muinaisskandinaavi (fi), muinaisnorja (fi) French: norrois (fr) m, norois (fr) m, vieil islandais (fr) m, vieux norvégien (fr) m, vieux norrois (fr) m, vieux norois (fr) m, vieux-norrois (fr) m, vieux-norois m Galician: nórdico antigo (gl) m German: Altnordisch (de) n Hebrew: נורדית עתיקה f (nordit atika) Icelandic: norræna (is) f, fornnorræna (is) f Irish: Sean-Lochlannais f Italian: norreno (it) m, antico nordico (it) m Japanese: 古ノルド語 (ja) (Ko-Norudo-go) Latin: lingua Nordica antiqua f Norwegian: Bokmål: gammelnordisk, gammalnordisk, norrønt (no), oldnordisk Nynorsk: gammalnordisk, norrønt n, oldnordisk Old Norse: dǫnsk tunga f, norrønt mál n Polish: staronordyjski (pl) m Portuguese: escandinavo antigo m, nórdico antigo (pt) m, norreno (pt) m Russian: древнескандина́вский (ru) (drevneskandinávskij) Slovak: staroseverčina f, stará severčina f Spanish: nórdico antiguo m Swedish: fornnordiska (sv) c, norröna (sv) c Turkish: Eski Norsça (tr) Volapük: norg (vo)

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Old Norse terms

Further reading

• ISO 639-3 code non (SIL)
• “Old Norse”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• noodlers