The story
- Old English · inherited fromfnora
- Old English · inherited from*fnorettan
- Middle English · inherited fromsnorten
- English todaysnort
From Middle English snorten, from earlier fnorten, from Old English *fnorettan, related to Middle English snoren, fnoren, from Old English fnora. See snore and sneeze for more on the change from fn- to sn-.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishfnora all →
snore
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.