umboðsmaðr

Old Norse

Etymology

From umboð +‎ maðr.

Noun

umboðsmaðr m

1. commissary, steward

Descendants

• Old Danish: umbuzman
  • Danish: ombudsmand
• Icelandic: umboðsmaður
• Norwegian Bokmål: ombudsmann
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ombodsmann
• Swedish: ombudsman
  • → Dutch: ombudsman
  • → English: ombudsman
    • → Georgian: ომბუდსმენი (ombudsmeni)
  • → German: Ombudsmann

References

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic‎^[1], Oxford: Clarendon Press