English borrows a lot of words from different languages. Words include rendezvous, genre, and even lemon. English is more of ...

Amlóði was in simple terms a Norse word for a fool—or, more specifically, someone who is too weak or foolish to do their work ...

Skum is the Danish word for ‘foam’. Its exact origin is unclear, but it has roots in an older Nordic word meaning to “cover, ...

Only around 150 Norse words have been adopted into our language, but the ones that have survived tell us a lot about the nature of Scandinavian settlement. The French words that crept in when the ...