Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. norhtFrenchinherited from
2. *nurþrąProto-West Germanicderived from
3. norþEnglishderived from
4. *ner-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• lenor

  Mauritian Creole · derived from

• nord

  Romanian · borrowed from

• nord

  Romansch · borrowed from

• norte

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• norte

  Asturian · borrowed from

• Ilocos Norte

  Tagalog · derived from

• nordu

  Corsican · borrowed from

• Ilocos Norte

  Cebuano · derived from

What You Can Explore

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