Words that come from Old Norse “barn”

131 words across 15 languages descend from Old Norse barn — including barn, barnyard, bairn, barnlike, barndoor, barnstorm, carbarn, barny.

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English (30)

Norwegian Bokmål (21)

Swedish (19)

Danish (19)

Norwegian Nynorsk (14)

Icelandic (8)

Middle English (5)

Scots (5)

Faroese (3)

Old Norse (2)

Old Danish (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Greenlandic (1)

Jamtish (1)

Westrobothnian (1)