Words that come from Old Norse býr

177 words across 25 languages descend from Old Norse býr — including by, thereby, whereby, bye, hereby, bypass, Kirby, Crosby.

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English (106)

Norwegian Bokmål (16)

Norwegian Nynorsk (14)

Swedish (9)

Slovak (4)

Malay (4)

Japanese (3)

Russian (2)

French (2)

Old Swedish (2)

Faroese (1)

Icelandic (1)

Tagalog (1)

Turkish (1)

Egyptian Arabic (1)

North Levantine Arabic (1)

Korean (1)

Greenlandic (1)

Chinese (1)

Spanish (1)

Portuguese (1)

Mauritian Creole (1)

German (1)

Middle English (1)

Italian (1)