Norn

See also: norn

English

Etymology 1

From Old Norse norn.

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)

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

Synonyms

• (goddess of fate or destiny): Fate (Greek mythology)

Meronyms

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

Translations

any of the three goddesses of fate or destiny

• Esperanto: Norno
• French: Norne (fr) f
• German: Norne (de) f
• Marathi: नॉर्न f (nŏrna)
• Portuguese: Norna f
• Spanish: norna f
• Swedish: norna (sv) c

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Scots Norn, from Middle Scots Norn (“Norn, Norwegian”), from Middle English Norn, Norren (“Norwegian”), from Old English Norren, Norn (“Norwegian”), from Old Norse norrǿnn (“northern, Norwegian”), from Proto-Germanic *nurþrōnijaz (“northern”).

Doublet of northern and Northron.

Proper noun

Norn

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

Meronyms

• (language): Shetlandish, Shetlandic

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 (fi)
• French: norne (fr) m
• German: Norn (de) n
• Icelandic: norn (is) n
• Irish: Nórnais f
• Manx: Nornish
• Marathi: नॉर्न f (nŏrna)
• Norman: Nornnique
• Norn: Norn
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: norn n

  Nynorsk: norn n

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

Middle English

Etymology

From Norrene.

Adjective

Norn

1. Related or pertaining to Norway; Norwegian

Synonyms

• Norenissce
• Noreine

References

• “Noreine, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 1 April 2018.

Old English

Adjective

Norn

1. alternative form of Norren