JARP

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Origin and Meaning

Germanic name element

Indo-Germanic

*erebh- = 'dark reddish, brownish' [1]

Old Norse

jarpr = 'brown' [2] [3] [4] [5]
jarpr = 'fuscous' [6]

Old High German

erph = 'fuscous' [6]
erpf = 'brown' [5]

Old Saxon

erp = 'brown' [5]

Old English

erop = 'brown' [5]
eorp = 'fuscous' [6]

Related Names

See Jarpr

Combinations

Name
Element    
Example
ULF see IarpulfR

First Element Forms

Iarp- Iærp-

References

  1. Hjalmar Falk & Alf Torp: Etymologisk ordbok over det norske og det danske sprog (1999)
  2. Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
  3. Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
  4. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  5. Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)
  6. Günther Drosdowski: Duden Etymologie - Herkunftswörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (1997)