The story
- Danish · borrowed fromnorsk“Norwegian”
- Dutch · borrowed fromNoorsch
- English todayNorse
Partly from Dutch Noorsch (now Noors (“Norwegian”)), from noordsch (“northern; nordic”); and partly from Danish norsk (“Norwegian”). Both equivalent to north + -ish. Doublet of Norsk.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.