Old Norse

English

Alternative forms

• (abbreviation): ON.

Noun

Old Norse (uncountable)

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

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Old Norse terms

Further reading

• ISO 639-3 code non (SIL).

Translations

language of Scandinavia before 1400 CE

• Armenian: հին հյուսիսային լեզու (hin hyusisayin lezu)
• Catalan: nòrdic antic (ca) m
• Czech: stará severština f
• Danish: oldnordisk (da), norrønt (da)
• Dutch: Oudnoords (nl) n, (somewhat proscribed) Oudnoors (nl) n
• Esperanto: malnovnordlanda lingvo
• Estonian: Vanapõhja keel
• Faroese: norrønt (fo)
• Finnish: muinaisskandinaavi (fi), muinaisnorja (fi)
• French: norois (fr) m, vieil islandais (fr) m, vieux norois (fr) m
• Galician: nórdico antigo (gl) m
• German: Altnordisch (de) n
• Hebrew: נורדית עתיקה‎‎ f (nordit atika)
• Icelandic: norræna (is)

• Irish: Lochlannais f, Sean-Ioruais f
• Italian: norreno (it) m, antico nordico (it) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gammelnordisk, gammalnordisk, norrønt (no), oldnordisk

  Nynorsk: gammalnordisk, norrønt n, oldnordisk

• Old Norse: dǫnsk tunga, norrønt mál
• Portuguese: escandinavo antigo m, nórdico antigo (pt) m, norreno m
• Russian: древнескандина́вский (ru) (drevneskandinávskij)
• Slovak: staroseverčina f, stará severčina f
• Spanish: nórdico antiguo m
• Swedish: fornnordiska (sv), norröna c
• Turkish: Eski Norsça (tr)
• Volapük: norg (vo)

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