Where does “hummer” come from?
hummer (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Old Norse humarr, from Proto-Germanic *humaraz.
hummer (Norwegian Bokmål): a lobster
Ancestry of “hummer”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old Norse | humarr | lobster |
| 2 | Proto-Germanic | *humaraz | — |