Norway is the Nordic country of deep fjords and the midnight sun. Sail to Norway, born in Norway, the coast of Norway.
The coastline is so cut about by fjords that measuring it depends entirely on the scale you use, and it runs to tens of thousands of kilometres. North of the Arctic Circle the sun does not set in midsummer. Oil made the country one of the richest in the world.
1nounnorwayA Nordic country.
“Oslo is the capital of Norway.”
norway is a country.
Old Norse
Norðvegr — north way
Old English
Norþweġ
Middle English
Norwey
English
Norway
English, today
norway
Built from
Norway comes from Middle English Norwey, Norweye, Northwey, Norweȝe, Norewæiȝ, Norwæge, from Old English Norþweġ, a calque of Old Norse Norðvegr (“north way”), from norðr (“north”) + vegr (“way”), contrasted with suðrvegr (“south way”), i.e. Germany, and austrvegr (“east way”), the Baltic lands. Norwegian (1607) is from Medieval Latin Norvegia, with the -w- from Norway. Equivalent to North + way.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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