umboðsmaðr

Old Norse

Etymology

From umboð +‎ maðr.

Noun

umboðsmaðr m

commissary, steward

Descendants

Old Danish: umbuzman
- Danish: ombudsmand
Icelandic: 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

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