Viðbjǫrn
Old Norse
proper noun
Etymology
Compound from Old Norse viðr (wood, tree, forest, log, tree wood, board, mast, against, big, bushes, far, wide, stump) + Old Norse bjǫrn (bear).
Origin
Old Norse
bjǫrn
Gloss
bear
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
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Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bjørn Norwegian Bokmål
- *bernuz Proto-Germanic
- *widuz Proto-Germanic
- ved Swedish
- bjørn Norwegian Nynorsk
- Freyviðr Old Norse
- Ríkviðr Old Norse
- Skáfiðr Old Norse
- birkiviðr Old Norse
- bjǫrn Old Norse
- mjǫtviðr Old Norse
- viðr Old Norse
- Ásbjǫrn Old Norse
- Þórbjǫrn Old Norse
- björn Icelandic
- viður Icelandic
- bjørn Faroese
- viður Faroese
- *piernë Proto-Samic
- biorn Old Swedish
- bjern Westrobothnian
- Bjørn Norwegian
- biørn Old Danish