köken: From Germanic, from Frankish *bîsi (“covered with clouds”), related to *bisa (“wind from the northeast”), from Proto-Germanic *bī̆s- (“to storm ahead”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂- (“to be afraid, fear”), see also Proto-Germanic *bibāną (“to shiver”). Compare Walloon bijhe.
La Cigale ayant chanté / Tout l’Eſté, / Se trouva fort dépourvuë / Quand la biſe fut venuë.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *nér Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *nŕ̥t(e)ros Proto-Germanic *nurþraz Proto-West Germanic *norþr Old English norþbor. Old French nort Middle French nordbor. Old Spanish norte Spanish norte Inherited from Old Spanish norte, borrowed from Middle French nord, from Old French nort, borrowed from Old English norþ.
aile: América del Norte, gallo del norte, noreste, noroeste, nororiente, norponiente, Norteamérica, nortear, norteño, perder el norte
köken: From Proto-Semitic *śimaʔl-. Cognate with Hebrew שְׂמֹאל (s'mól, “left”), Akkadian 𒆏 (šumēlum, “left side”), Aramaic סְמָלָא (səmālā) / ܣܡܠܐ (semmālā, “left side”), Ugaritic 𐎌𐎎𐎀𐎍 (šmảl). The north sense derives from the left-hand side facing the sunrise, also attested in Sabaean 𐩠𐩦𐩱𐩣𐩡 (hs²ʾml, “to be northward”).
köken: From Proto-Finnic *pohjainën, equivalent to pohja (“bottom, north”) + -inen. The form pohjoinen was adapted from the Savonian dialects, whence the -oi- (a regular change also seen in e.g. hopioinen < hopea + -inen), and introduced into the standard language by Abraham Poppius in 1818.
köken: Inherited from Latin mediam noctem, accusative of nox (“night”). Compare Italian mezzanotte, Aromanian njadzã-noapti, Istriot miezanuotto, Romansch mesanotg. Was the traditional word for "north", but was replaced by nord.
Etimoloji
Borrowed from French nord, from Old English norþ, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą.