Etymology

Nynorsk

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Today it means: One of the two major written standards (language variants) of Norwegian. Full definition →

Norwegian Nynorsk nynorsk ← Old Norse nýr ← Proto-Norse *ᚾᛁᚹᛦ (*niwʀ)
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*nu
  2. Proto-Indo-European*néwos
  3. Proto-Germanic*niwjaz
  4. Proto-Norseᚾᛁᚹᚨᛉ (niwaʀ)
  5. Proto-Norse*ᚾᛁᚹᛦ (*niwʀ)
  6. Old Norse*ᚾᛁᚢᛦ (*niuʀ)
  7. Old Norsenȳʀ
  8. Old Norsenýr
  9. Norwegian Nynorskny
  10. Norwegian Nynorskny-
  11. Norwegian Nynorsknorsk
  12. Norwegian Nynorsknynorsk
  13. English todayNynorsk

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.