ansvar
Norwegian Nynorsk
noun-n1
Definitions
- responsibility
- economy liability
- blame
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse andsvar (answer) inherited from Proto-Germanic *andaswarō.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*andaswarō
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- answer English
- answer print English
- answerability English
- answerable English
- answerer English
- answerest English
- answereth English
- answering English
- answerless English
- answerphone English
- autoanswer English
- foreanswer English
- misanswer English
- multianswer English
- nonanswer English
- reanswer English
- *swer- Proto-Indo-European
- ansvar Norwegian Bokmål
- *andaswarō Proto-Germanic
- ansvar Swedish
- answere Middle English
- andsvar Old Norse
- svar Old Norse
- ansvar Danish
- *andaswaru gmw-pro
- andswor Old Saxon
- ansa Tok Pisin