Norweyan
English
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Etymology
Adjective
Norweyan (comparative more Norweyan, superlative most Norweyan)
- (obsolete) Norwegian
- 1623, William Shakespeare, Macbeth:
- Whence cam'ſt thou, worthy Thane?
From Fiffe, great King,
Where the Norweyan banners flowt the Skie,
And fanne our people cold.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Norweyan”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)