Etymograph

English

Nynorsk

Nynorsk comes from Norwegian nynorsk ‘Modern Norwegian’.

  1. Norwegianmodernnynorsk‘Modern Norwegian’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2023Nynorsk

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

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  1. Norwegianmodernnynorsk‘Modern Norwegian’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2023Nynorsk

Earliest quotation: 2023, Philip Oltermann, Jon Fosse’s Nobel prize announces his overdue arrival on the: “While 85-90% of Norwegians today use Bokmål as their…”

The story

Borrowed from Norwegian nynorsk (“Modern Norwegian”, literally “New Norwegian”).

Every English word from Norwegian nynorsk

Today it means

name One of the two major written standards (language variants) of Norwegian.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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