The story
- Old Norse · derived from*Norðvegr
- Old English · inherited fromNorweġ
- English todayNorwegia
From Old English Norweġ, Norþweġ (“Norway”), from Old Norse *Norðvegr, Norvegr, and later Noregr (“Norway (north way)”), from norðr (“north”) + vegr (“way”).
Words from the same roots
Old EnglishNorweġ all →
Norwegian
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.