Where does “Nord” come from?

Nord (French) comes from Middle French nord, from Old French nort, from Old English norþ, from Proto-Germanic nurþrą, from Proto-Germanic nurþraz, from Proto-Indo-European *nér — below the surface, below.

Nord (French): north

Definitions

  1. north

Ancestry of “Nord”, step by step

Nord traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Middle French nord

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchnordnorth
2Old Frenchnortnorth
3Old Englishnorþnorth
4Proto-Germanicnurþrąnorth, northern; north, northward
5Proto-Germanicnurþraznorth, northern
6Proto-Indo-European*nérbelow the surface, below

via German Norden

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanNordennorth
2Italiannordnorth; northern

via Old High German nord

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old High Germannordnorth

Words derived from “Nord”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *nér →