stormr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sturmaz, whence also Old English storm, Old Saxon storm, Old High German sturm. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twer-, *(s)tur- (“to rotate, swirl, twirl, move around”).

Noun

stormr m

1. storm

Declension

Declension of stormr (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	stormr	stormrinn	stormar	stormarnir
accusative	storm	storminn	storma	stormana
dative	stormi	storminum	stormum	stormunum
genitive	storms	stormsins	storma	stormanna

Descendants

• Icelandic: stormur
• Faroese: stormur
• Norwegian: storm (Bokmål), storm (Nynorsk)
• Old Swedish: stormber
  • Swedish: storm
• Danish: storm

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “stormr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive