Tales of Home [2]

Norse words

brand from brandr
fellow from fèlagi
bag from bag

(click the source below, this was really messy)

ado
influenced by Norse "at" ("to", infinitive marker) which was used with English "do" in certain English dialects
aloft
á ("=in, on, to") + lopt ("=air, atmosphere, sky, heaven, upper floor, loft")
English provenance = c 1200 AD
anger
angr ("=trouble, affliction"); root ang (="strait, straitened, troubled"); related to anga, plural öngur (="straits, anguish")
English provenance = c 1250 AD
awe
agi ("=terror")
English provenance = c 1205 AD (as aȝe, an early form of the word resulting from the influence of Old Norse on an existing Anglo-Saxon form, eȝe)
are
merger of Old English (earun, earon) and Old Norse (er) cognates
Auk
A type of artic seabird.
awkward
the first element is from Old Norse öfugr ("=turned-backward"), the '-ward' part is from Old English weard
axle
öxl ("=ox tree")
B [edit]

bag
baggi
bairn
barn (="child")
bait
beita
ball
bǫllr" (="round object")
band
band (="rope")
bark
bǫrkr
bask
baðask reflex. of baða "bathe" (baðast, baða sig)
berserk
berserkr, lit. 'bear-shirt', (alt. berr-serkr, 'bare-shirt') frenzied warriors
billow
bylgja
birth
byrðr
bleak
bleikr (="pale")
blunder
blundra (="shut one's eye")
both
baðir
bug
búkr (="insect within tree trunks")
bulk
bulki
bull
boli
bylaw
bylög ('by'=village; 'lög'=law; 'village-law')
C [edit]

cake
kaka (="cake")
call
kalla (="cry loudly")
cast
kasta (="to throw")
choose
kjósa (="to choose")
clip
klippa (="to cut")
club
klubba (="cudgel")
crawl
krafla (="to claw")
crook
krokr (="hook-shaped instrument or weapon")
cur
kurra (="to growl")
D [edit]

die
deyja (="pass away")
dirt
drit (="feces")
dregs
dregg (="sediment")
E [edit]

egg
egg (="egg")
Eider a type of duck.
F [edit]

fellow
felagi
flat
flatr
flit
flytja (="cause to fit")
fog
from Old Norse fok through Danish fog, meaning "spray", "shower", "snowdrift"
freckle
freknur (="freckles")
G [edit]

gad
gaddr (="rod, long stick")
gap
gap (="chasm")
garth
garðr (="garden")
gawk
from Middle English gawen, from Old Norse ga (="to heed")
get
geta, gat (> got), gittan (> gotten)
geyser
from Icelandic geysir, from Old Norse geysa (="to gush")
gift
gift (="dowry")
girth
gjörð (="circumference, cinch")
give
gefa (="to give")
glitter
glitra (="to glitter")
gosling
gæslingr" (="goose")
guest
gestr (="guest")
gun
from Old Norse Gunnhildr (female name, both elements of the name, gunn and hildr, have the meaning "war, battle")
gust
gustr (="gust")
H [edit]

haggle
haggen (="to chop")
hail
heill (="health, prosperity, good luck")
hap, happy
happ (="chance, good luck, fate")
heathen
heiðinn (="not Christian or Jewish/ the word for an exclusively Christian idea, a person or society prior to Christianity.")
Hell
May be in part from Old Norse Hel, the daughter of Loki and ruler of the underworld in Norse mythology.
hit
hitta (="to find")
how
haugr (="barrow, small hill") Usage preserved mainly in place names
husband
husbondi (="master of the house")
I [edit]

ill
illr (="bad")
irk
yrkja (="to work")
J [edit]

jökulhlaup
from Icelandic jökulhlaup from Old Norse jǫkull and hlaup.
K [edit]

keel
kjölr
Kenning a descriptive phrase used as a name.
kid
kið (="young goat")
kindle
kynda
knife
knifr
knot
knutr
L [edit]

lad
ladd (="young man")
lathe
hlaða (="to load")
law
*lagu
leather
*leðr
leg
leggr
likely
líkligr
link
*hlenkr
litmus
litmose (="lichen for dying", lita ="to stain")
loan
lán (="to lend")
loft
lopt (="an upper room or floor : attic, air, sky")
loose
lauss (="loose/free")
low
lagr
M [edit]

mire
myrr (='bog')
mistake
mistaka (="miscarry")
muck
myki (="cow dung")
mug
mugge
muggy
mugga (="drizzle, mist")
N [edit]

Norman, Normandy
from Old Norse through Old French, meaning "northman", due to Viking settlement in Normandy region
O [edit]

oaf
alfr (="elf")
odd
oddi (="third number", "the casting vote")
Odin
Óðinn
ombudsman
from Old Norse umboðsmaðr through Swedish ombudsman, meaning "commissary", "representative", "steward"
outlaw
utlagi
P [edit]

plough, plow
plogr
R [edit]

Ragnarök
"Doom of the gods" or "Destiny of the gods", from Norse mythology & ON word of same meaning, composed of words ragna, genitive of "the great powers"(regin), and rǫk (later rök) "destiny, doom, fate, end". Often erroneously rendered "Twilight of the Gods" after Richard Wagner's opera Götterdämmerung, based on the mythological event.
race
rás (="to race", "to run", "to rush", "to move swift")
raft
raptr (="log")
raise
reisa
ransack
rannsaka (="to search the house")
reindeer
hreindyri
rid
rythja (="to clear land")
rive
rífa (="to scratch, plow, tear")
root
rót
rotten
rotinn (="decayed")
rugged
rogg (="shaggy tuft")
run
renna (="to run")
S [edit]

saga
saga (="story, tale")
sale
sala
same
same, samr (="same")
scale
(for weighing) from skal (="bowl, drinking cup", or in plural "weighing scale" referring to the cup or pan part of a balance) in early English used to mean "cup"
scant
skamt & skammr (="short, lacking")
scare
skirra (="to frighten)
scarf
skarfr (="fastening joint") ("scarf" and "scarves" have been reintroduced to modern Swedish in their English forms)
scathe
skaða (="to hurt, injure")
score
skor (="notch"; "twenty")
scrape
skrapa (="to scrape, erase")
scrap
skrap (="scraps, trifles") from skrapa
seat
sæti (="seat, position")
seem
sœma (="to conform")
shake
skaka (="to shake")
skate
skata (="fish")
skid
probably from or related to Old Norse skið (="stick of wood") and related to "ski" (="stick of wood", or in this sense "snowshoe")
skill
skil (="distinction")
skin
skinn (="animal hide")
skip
skopa (="to skip, run)
skirt
skyrta (="shirt")
skull
skulle (="head")
sky
ský (="cloud")
slant
sletta, slenta (="to throw carelessly")
slaughter
*slahtr (="butchering")
slaver
slafra (="slaver")
sledge
sleggja (="sledgehammer")
sleight
slœgð
sleuth
sloð (="trail")
sly
sloegr (="cunning, crafty, sly")
snare
snara (="noose, snare")
snub
snubba (="to curse")
sprint
spretta (="to jump up")
stagger
stakra (="to push")
stain
steina (="to paint")
stammer
stemma (="to hinder, damn up")
steak
steik, steikja (="to fry")
sway
sveigja (="to bend, swing, give way")
T [edit]

take
taka
tarn
tjörn, tjarn
their
þierra
they
þeir
thorp
þorp
though
from Old English þēah, and in part from Old Norse þó (="though")
thrall
þræll
Thursday
Þorsdagr (="Thor's day")
thrift
þrift (="prosperity")
thrust
þrysta (="to thrust, force")
thwart
þvert (="across")
tidings
tíðindi (="news of events")
tight
þéttr (="watertight, close in texture, solid")
till
til (="to, until")
troll
troll (="giant, fiend, demon"; further etymology is disputed)
trust
traust (="help, confidence")
U [edit]

ugly
uggligr (="dreadful")
until
from Old Norse und (="as far as, up to") and til (="until, up to")
V [edit]

Vanadium
from Old Norse Vanadis, another name for Freja
viking
vikingr (="one who came from the fjords")
W [edit]

wand
vondr (="rod")
want
vanta (="to lack")
weak
veikr (="weak, pliant")
whirl
hvirfla (="to go around")
whisk
viska (="to plait")
wight
vigr (="able in battle") – the other wight meaning "man" is from Old English
wile
vél (="trick, craft, fraud")
window
vindauga (="wind-eye") – although gluggi was more commonly used in Old Norse
wing
vængr (="a wing")
wrong
rangr (="crooked, wry, wrong")
Y [edit]

Yggdrasil
Yggdrasill
yule
jol ("A heathen feast upon the winter solstice, later appropriated by Christianity.")

source: https://www.facebook.com/pages/List-of-English-words-of-Old-Norse-origin/103272463061789?nr# (there are also a list of more sources, so this is reliable.)

And thats why english is the world language- it just nicks other peoples words it likes and absorbs them in- its a continuely expandng language.

yeah, tell me about it like.. 40% of our everyday words comes from german (low)

Holy Loch, today (I grew up in a barrel on the shores of this loch) And my granmother on my mothers side had her ashes scattered there -just off to the right of frame in fact)

My part of the world today- sunny and hot.

I'm looking out the window at your cold and wet.

Can I have it back please? Im melting!

Out of curiosity, what exactly counts as "hot" in your part of the world? I ask because there's a good chance I'd like it so long as it's not too humid.

Um, not sure, hold on Ill check what todays temperature was- whatever that was, it was too bloody hot!

21 degrees C.

I even had to take my bunnet off.

Ugh. That like 70 F! We're a much more civilized 55F (13C).

21? thats not hot you lightweight.

Eldo, 30 degrees celsius is too hot. so can 25 be too. depends on the wind. I can be lovely sunny and 25 + in a quite spot, but the wind can be freezing.

summer has really hit here. We have had around 25 all week and last week. I am boiling over, but it is lovely. been wearing shorts all day.

David H wrote:Ugh. That like 70 F! We're a much more civilized 55F (13C).

sounds lovely.

Mrs Figg wrote:21? thats not hot you lightweight.

we're overjoyed when we have 20+

Yup anything over 20 is too hot and definitley summer.

we rarely get over 20 though (although wind can make it feel colder), this whole past two weeks have been unusual. it probably gonna be shit rest of summer

21 C isn't bad at all.

Norc wrote:Eldo, 30 degrees celsius is too hot. so can 25 be too. depends on the wind. I can be lovely sunny and 25 + in a quite spot, but the wind can be freezing.

Yeah, it's 31 C (about 87 F) here right now. That's a little over my ideal but it's not bad. We don't have the A/C on but opened a ton of windows and have fans going to keep circulation up. My room is some sort of heat magnet and is pretty oppressive right now, but I moved downstairs and it's actually quite nice.

The only thing left to do is fix the hammock that the mice chewed through last winter.

my room too is a heat-magnet..

no, but srsly, we have a house with lots of floors and big windows and the warm air travels upwards and into my room. we open like doors out to the garden, but the cooler air doesn't go up to my room, so when i go to bed i get a shock because not only is it really sunny it's also really warm, and opening the windows won't help as the air is at a stand still in the evening (I would explain this wind systems, cus that's like geology/methrology, and i know my shit, bit it's like a mini-monsun wind-system)... so yeah, above 25 i get really uncomfortable. because my room will be around 22-23 or something, around that, and i can't stand sleeping in a warm room. winter is better that way. cold and dark.


also. ew. mice.

My room is on the second floor and has east and south facing windows so it always gets a ton of sunlight. Which I don't mind in winter cause the room is bright and toasty but in the summer it gets ugly. It was even worse when one of my windows was jammed but we fixed it so I can at least get a cross-breeze.

The mice are only in the carport and the shed, fortunately. The cats ate all of the basement/house mice a long time ago.

yeah, at least you get winds going through i only have some small windows on one wall that doesn't really go up too much, and wind doesn't come in unless it's stormy


we had rats as pets a couple of years ago.

I got a hamster

My brother had two guinea pigs years and years ago and I had to help take care of them. Guinea pigs must be the most useless pets ever. They're nothing but balls of fuzz that eat, sleep, and shit everywhere, including on the people holding them.

I've got thousands of field mice that are trying to move into my house with the return of the cold weather. And I have a very full cat.