English
Geiranger
Geiranger comes from Old Norse Geirangr.
- Old Norsec. 800–1350Geirangr
- nb,nnmodernGeiranger
- Englishtodaysame form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Old Norsec. 800–1350Geirangr
- nb,nnmodernGeiranger
- Englishtodaysame form
A compound of geirr ‘spear’ + angr ‘inlet’
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey- ‘to drive, move, fling’
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰoysós ‘throwing spear’
Proto-Germanic *gaizaz ‘spear, pike, javelin’
Old Norse geirr ‘spear’
Proto-Germanic *angraz
Old Norse angr ‘inlet’
Every English word from Old Norse Geirangr
Today it means
name A village in Stranda municipality, Sunnmøre, Møre og Romsdal, Vestlandet, Norway, first settled in the fourth or fifth century.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old Norse Geirangr / Geiranger