List of English Words of Old Norse Origin - A

A

ado

influenced by Norse "at" ("to", infinitive marker) which was used with English "do" in certain English dialects

aloft

• á ("=in, on, to") + lopt ("=air, atmosphere, sky, heaven, upper floor, loft")
• English provenance = c 1200 CE

anger

• angr ("=trouble, affliction"); root ang (="strait, straitened, troubled"); related to anga, plural öngur (="straits, anguish")
• English provenance = c 1250 CE

awe

• agi ("=terror")
• English provenance = c 1205 CE (as aȝe, an early form of the word resulting from the influence of Old Norse on an existing Anglo-Saxon form, eȝe)

are

merger of Old English (earun, earon) and Old Norse (er) cognates

awkward

the first element is from Old Norse öfugr ("=turned-backward"), the '-ward' part is from Old English weard

axle

öxl ("=ox tree")