The story
- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*nurþrōnijaz
- Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*norþrōnī
- Old English · inherited fromnorþerne
- Middle English · inherited fromnortherne
- English todaynorthern
From Middle English northerne, from Old English norþerne, from Proto-West Germanic *norþrōnī, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrōnijaz. Cognate with Old High German nordrōni and Old Norse norrœnn. Morphologically north + -ern.
Words from the same roots
Proto-Germanic*nurþrōnijaz all →
Norn
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.