Troms

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian Troms.

Proper noun

Troms (uncountable)

1. A county of Norway (between 2020 to 2024 Troms and Finnmark were merged into Troms og Finnmark county).

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse Trums f (“Tromsøya”), originally the name of an island, possibly from straumr (“stream, current, tide”). Doublet of Tromsø.

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Proper noun

Troms

1. A county in Northern Norway (between 2020 to 2024 Troms and Finnmark were merged into Troms og Finnmark county).

Descendants

• → Finnish: Tromssa
• → Northern Sami: Romsa

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• Trums (alternative spelling)

Etymology

Originally the name of what’s now called Tromsøya; from Old Norse Trums, possibly from Proto-Germanic *trumisō. Also theorised to come from *Strums, from an ablaut form of straumr (“current, stream”). Cognate with Icelandic Trums.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Troms f

1. A county in Northern Norway (between 2020 to 2024 Troms and Finnmark were merged into Troms og Finnmark county).

Derived terms

• Tromsøya

Descendants

• →⇒ Danish: Tromsø
  • → Norwegian: Tromsø
• → Northern Sami: Romsa
• → Finnish: Tromssa