Where does “fregnet” come from?
fregnet (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Old Norse freknóttr, from Old Norse -óttr, from Proto-Germanic -uhtaz.
fregnet (Norwegian Bokmål): freckled
Ancestry of “fregnet”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Old Norse | freknóttr | freckly |
| 2 | Old Norse | -óttr | suffix used to create adjectives, meaning more or... |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | -uhtaz | — |