stormr
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *sturmaz, whence also Old English storm, Old Saxon storm, Old High German sturm. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twer-, *(s)tur- (“to rotate, swirl, twirl, move around”).
Noun
stormr m
Descendants
- Danish: storm
- Faroese: stormur
- Icelandic: stormur
- Norwegian: storm (Bokmål), storm (Nynorsk)
- Old Swedish: stormber
- Swedish: storm
References
- “stormr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press