Partly from Dutch Noorsch (now Noors), from noordsch (“northern; nordic”); and partly from Danish norsk (“Norse”). Both equivalent to north +‎ -ish.

Is Norse North?

The Norsemen (or Norse people) were a North Germanic ethnolinguistic group of the Early Middle Ages, during which they spoke the Old Norse language. The language belongs to the North Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages and is the predecessor of the modern Germanic languages of Scandinavia.

What is the Norse word for north?

"northwards, to the north, in the north;" from Proto-Germanic *nurtha- (source also of Old Norse norðr, Old Saxon north, Old Frisian north, Middle Dutch nort, Dutch noord, German nord), which is probably an IE word, but of uncertain origin.