The story
- Old Norse · derived fromumboð
- Norn · borrowed fromumbod
- English todayumboth
Borrowed from Norn umbod, ombod, from Old Norse umboð. Cognate with Icelandic umboð, Faroese umboð, Swedish ombud. Cognate with the first element of ombudsman (equivalent to umboth + -s- + man, “person of agency”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.