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)

1. (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”)

Translations

any of the three goddesses of fate or destiny

• Esperanto: Norno
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Etymology 2

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

Proper noun

Norn

1. 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
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• 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 ⁠

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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 2018-04-01.