Wiktionary

Troms

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Norwegian Bokmål edit

 
Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology edit

From Old Norse Trums f (“Tromsøya”), originally the name of an island, possibly from straumr (“stream, current, tide”). Doublet of Tromsø.

Pronunciation edit

  • Audio(file)

Proper noun edit

Troms

  1. A former county in Northern Norway

Descendants edit

  • → Finnish: Tromssa
  • → Northern Sami: Romsa

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

 
Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Alternative forms edit

  • Trums (alternative spelling)

Etymology edit

Originally the name of what’s now called Tromsøya; from Old Norse Trums, possibly from Proto-Germanic *trumisō.[1] Also theorised to come from *Strums, from an ablaut form of straumr (“current, stream”). Cognate with Icelandic Trums.

Pronunciation edit

Proper noun edit

Troms f

  1. A county in Northern Norway

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

References edit

  1. ^ Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Troms&oldid=79139967"