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  2. Category:Norwegian-language surnames - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Norwegian-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 890 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  3. Scandinavian family name etymology - Wikipedia

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    Norwegian surnames were originally patronymic and similar to the surnames used in modern Iceland, consisting of the father's name and one of the suffixes "-sen"/"-son" (son) or "-datter"/"-dotter" (daughter), depending on the person's gender. Unlike modern surnames (family names), they were specific to a person and were not transferred to a ...

  4. List of English words of Scandinavian origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English words that are probably of modern Scandinavian origin. This list excludes words borrowed directly from Old Norse ; for those, see list of English words of Old Norse origin .

  5. List of English words of Old Norse origin - Wikipedia

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    Words of Old Norse origin have entered the English language, primarily from the contact between Old Norse and Old English during colonisation of eastern and northern England between the mid 9th to the 11th centuries (see also Danelaw). Many of these words are part of English core vocabulary, such as egg or knife. There are hundreds of such ...

  6. 92 grandma names and nicknames for the grandmother in ... - AOL

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    Grandmother names can be traditional, have a special meaning or be a fun, playful nickname. Some celebrities have shared the reason behind their own grandma names.

  7. List of English words of Norwegian origin - Wikipedia

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    List of English words of Scandinavian origin#English words of Norwegian origin To a section : This is a redirect from a topic that does not have its own page to a section of a page on the subject. For redirects to embedded anchors on a page, use {{ R to anchor }} instead .

  8. List of Old Norse exonyms - Wikipedia

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    From skrækja, meaning "bawl, shout, or yell" [29] or from skrá, meaning "dried skin", in reference to the animal pelts worn by the Inuit. [29] The name the Norse Greenlanders gave the previous inhabitants of North America and Greenland. Skuggifjord Hudson Strait Straumfjörð "Current-fjord", "Stream-fjord" or "Tide-fjord". A fjord in Vinland.

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