Words that come from Old Norse valr

400 words across 26 languages descend from Old Norse valr — including channel, Channel, Chan, wailing, wail, gunwale, multichannel, Valhalla.

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Finnish (125)

Swedish (104)

English (80)

Norwegian Bokmål (20)

Danish (12)

Icelandic (9)

Norwegian Nynorsk (9)

Faroese (7)

Old Norse (7)

Portuguese (4)

Middle English (4)

Japanese (3)

Hungarian (2)

Italian (2)

Czech (1)

Slovak (1)

Russian (1)

Korean (1)

Welsh (1)

Spanish (1)

German (1)

Scots (1)

Swahili (1)

French (1)

Polish (1)

Malayalam (1)