umboðsmaðr
Old Norse
Etymology
From umboð + maðr.
Noun
umboðsmaðr m
- commissary, steward
Descendants
- Old Danish: umbuzman
- Danish: ombudsmand
- Icelandic: umboðsmaður
- Faroese: umboðsmaður
- Norwegian Bokmål: ombudsmann
- Norwegian Nynorsk: ombodsmann
- Swedish: ombudsman
- → Dutch: ombudsman
- → English: ombudsman
- → Georgian: ომბუდსმენი (ombudsmeni)
- → German: Ombudsmann
References
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press