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

1. storm

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