morfar
Norwegian
noun
Definitions
- a mother's father; maternal grandfather
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse móðurfaðir (mother's father) compound from Norwegian Bokmål mor (mother) + Norwegian Bokmål far (father).
Origin
Norwegian
far
Gloss
father
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
父
Emoji
🎅
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- alenefar Norwegian Bokmål
- alenemor Norwegian Bokmål
- bestemor Norwegian Bokmål
- far Norwegian Bokmål
- farfar Norwegian Bokmål
- farmor Norwegian Bokmål
- farsfigur Norwegian Bokmål
- farskap Norwegian Bokmål
- farsside Norwegian Bokmål
- gudfar Norwegian Bokmål
- gudmor Norwegian Bokmål
- husmor Norwegian Bokmål
- jordmor Norwegian Bokmål
- kirkefar Norwegian Bokmål
- livmor Norwegian Bokmål
- mor Norwegian Bokmål
- morbror Norwegian Bokmål
- morkake Norwegian Bokmål
- mormor Norwegian Bokmål
- morsarv Norwegian Bokmål
- morsdag Norwegian Bokmål
- morsmelk Norwegian Bokmål
- morsmål Norwegian Bokmål
- morsside Norwegian Bokmål
- stamfar Norwegian Bokmål
- stefar Norwegian Bokmål
- stemor Norwegian Bokmål
- surrogatmor Norwegian Bokmål
- svigerfar Norwegian Bokmål
- svigermor Norwegian Bokmål
- morfar Swedish
- faðir Old Norse
- móðir Old Norse
- móðurfaðir Old Norse
- morfar Danish