Words that come from Old Norse nei

20 words across 9 languages descend from Old Norse nei — including nay, naysayer, naysay, nayward, nej, nja, förneka, neka.

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Swedish (5)

English (4)

Norwegian Bokmål (4)

Middle English (2)

Faroese (1)

Icelandic (1)

Danish (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Old Swedish (1)