Where does “tvers” come from?
tvers (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Old Norse þvers, from Proto-Germanic þwerhas — across.
tvers (Norwegian Bokmål): across
Ancestry of “tvers”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old Norse | þvers | — |
| 2 | Proto-Germanic | þwerhas | across |