Troms
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Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse Trums f (“Tromsøya”), originally the name of an island, possibly from straumr (“stream, current, tide”). Doublet of Tromsø.
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
[edit]Troms
- A former county in Northern Norway
Descendants
[edit]Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- Trums (alternative spelling)
Etymology
[edit]Originally the name of what’s now called Tromsøya; from Old Norse Trums, possibly from Proto-Germanic *trumisō.[1] Also theorised to come from *Strums, from an ablaut form of straumr (“current, stream”). Cognate with Icelandic Trums.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Proper noun
[edit]Troms f
- A county in Northern Norway
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN
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- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *srew-
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ser-
- Norwegian Bokmål terms inherited from Old Norse
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Bokmål doublets
- Norwegian Bokmål terms with audio links
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål proper nouns
- nb:Counties of Norway
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms inherited from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms with audio links
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk proper nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk feminine nouns
- nn:Troms
- nn:Counties of Norway
- nn:Places in Norway
- no:Counties of Norway