Words that come from Old Norse “sex”

29 words across 11 languages descend from Old Norse sex — including seks, sex, sex, sex, seks, sexa, seksmannafar, sexuell.

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Norwegian Bokmål (6)

Swedish (5)

Norwegian Nynorsk (5)

Icelandic (3)

Danish (2)

Faroese (2)

Old Swedish (2)

Interlingua (1)

Old Danish (1)

Elfdalian (1)

Old Norse (1)