Where does “horde” come from?
horde (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from German Horde, from Polish horda, from Russian орда́, from Proto-Turkic ordu — army, camp.
horde (Norwegian Bokmål): a horde
Ancestry of “horde”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | German | Horde | horde |
| 2 | Polish | horda | horde |
| 3 | Russian | орда́ | — |
| 4 | Proto-Turkic | ordu | army, camp |