Meanings
- An Indo-European language spoken in Scandinavia and ancestral to Old Norse that evolved from Proto-Germanic over the first centuries AD.
Synonyms: Ancient Nordic, Old Scandinavian, Primitive Norse, Proto-Nordic, Proto-North Germanic, Proto-Scandinavian
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounAn Indo-European language spoken in Scandinavia and ancestral to Old Norse that evolved from Proto-Germanic over the first centuries AD.
More synonyms by meaning
nounthe Germanic language of Scandinavia up until about 700
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Danish urnordisk
- urnordiskIndo-European language
Dutch Oernoords
- OernoordsIndo-European language
Esperanto praskandinava lingvo
- praskandinava lingvoIndo-European language
Finnish kantaskandinaavi
- kantaskandinaaviIndo-European language
French proto-norrois
- proto-norroisIndo-European language
German Urnordisch
- UrnordischIndo-European language
Icelandic frumnorræna
- frumnorrænaIndo-European language
Italian proto-norreno
- proto-norrenoIndo-European language
Norwegian urnordisk
- urnordiskIndo-European language
Swedish urnordiska
- urnordiskaIndo-European language
Cite this entry
Proto-Norse. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Proto-Norse
“Proto-Norse.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Proto-Norse. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Proto-Norse,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Proto-Norse.
Source: Proto-Norse on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.