English

NorAm

* Blend of north + America; syllabic abbreviation of North America.

Proto-Indo-European *nér ‘below (the surface)’

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Proto-Germanic *nurþrą ‘north’

Proto-West Germanic *norþr ‘northern’

Old English norþ

Middle English north ‘north’

English north

New Latin America

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