norþ - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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From Proto-West Germanic *norþr (compare Old High German nord, Old Norse norðr).

• IPA^(key): /norθ/, [norˠθ]

norþ

1. north
   • late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History

     [Wiht] is þrittiġes mīla lang ēast ⁊ west, ⁊ twelf mīla brād sūð ⁊ norð.

     [Wight] is thirty miles long east-to-west and twelve miles wide north-to-south.

• Norþanhymbre
• norþdǣl
• norþeweard

• Middle English: north, norþ, northe, norþe, norrþ
  • English: north
  • Scots: north
  • Yola: nordh, noardth
• → Old French: nort (see there for further descendants)