Etymology of “Inn”

Tracing the origin and linguistic journey from Old Norse

Source language

Old Norse

Ancestry links

Descendants

Word Origin Summary

Inn is attested in Old Norse. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

*innProto-West Germanicinherited from
*jainazProto-West Germanicinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

inn
Norwegian Bokmål · inherited from
inn-
Norwegian Bokmål · inherited from
innfatning
Norwegian Bokmål · inherited from
inn
Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from
innfatte
Norwegian Bokmål · inherited from
ajourinnfattet
Norwegian Bokmål · inherited from
ajourinnfatta
Norwegian Bokmål · inherited from

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🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root

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Etymology of “Inn”

Word Origin Summary

Ancestry Chain

Descendants and Related Terms

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