Old Norse Words in English
- ado – "to do"
- anger – "troubled, afflicted"
- axle – "ox tree"
- berserk – "bare-shirted warriors"
- blunder – "shut one's eye"
- booth – "dwell"
- bylaw – "village law"
- call – "cry loudly"
- cast – "to throw"
- club – "cudgel"
- crawl – "to claw"
- die – "pass"
- dirt – "feces"
- dregs – "sediment"
- game – "joy, glee"
- gawk – "to heed"
- geyser – "to gush"
- gift – "dowry"
- gun – "war, battle"
- hell – "underworld ruler"
- husband – "house master"
- lathe – "to load"
- litmus – "to stain"
- mistake – "miscarry"
- muck – "cow dung"
- oaf – "elf"
- odd – "third number" or "the casting vote"
- raft – "log"
- ransack – "to seach thoroughly"
- saga – "story, tale"
- scare – "to frighten"
- scarf – "fastening joint"
- scathe – "to hurt, injure"
- score – "notch" or "twenty"
- scrape – "to injure"
- seem – "conform"
- scale – "bowl, drinking cup"
- skate – "fish"
- skid – "stick of wood"
- sky – "cloud"
- steak – "to fry"
- thrift – "prosperity"
- ugly – "dreadful"
- want – "to lack"
- whirl – "to go around"
- window – "wind-eye"