stormr

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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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

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stormr m

  1. storm

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: stormur
  • Faroese: stormur
  • Norwegian: storm (Bokmål), storm (Nynorsk)
  • Old Swedish: stormber
  • Danish: storm

References

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  • stormr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press