SOL

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Name Element

Contents 1 Origin and Meaning 1.1 Ancient Germanic 1.2 Old Norse 1.3 Gothic 1.4 Old Saxon 1.5 Anglo-Saxon 1.6 Old High German 2 Related Names 3 Combinations 4 First Element Forms 5 Last Element Forms 6 References

Origin and Meaning

Germanic name element

The original meaning 'house with one room, big room, hall' (a) has later been displaced by the newer interpretation 'sun' (b) ^{[1] [2]}

Ancient Germanic

(a) *salaz, saliz = 'house with one room, big room, hall' ^[3]
(b) *sôwlô, *sôwila = 'sun' ^[3]

Old Norse

(a) salr = 'house with one room, big room, hall' ^{[4] [5] [2] [1]}
(b) sól = 'sun' ^{[5] [2] [1]}
(b) sôl = 'sun' ^[3]

Gothic

(b) sauil = 'sun' ^[3]

Old Saxon

(a) seli = 'big room, hall' ^[3]

Anglo-Saxon

(a) sele = 'hall, house' ^[3]

Old High German

(a) sal = 'big room, hall' ^[3]

Related Names

See Sol

Combinations

Name Element	Example
ALF	see Álfsól
AUD	see Sóleyð
BJÖRN	see Salbjǫrn
BJÖRT	see Sólbjǫrt
BORG	see Salbjǫrg
BRITT	see Solbritt
BRUN	see Sólbrún
DIS	see Saldís
EY	see Sóley
FINN	see Sólfinnur
FRÍÐ	see Solfrid
GEIR	see Salgeir
GERD	see Salgerðr
GULL	see Solgull
GUNN	see Solgun
HILD	see Solhild
ING	see Ingisól
KETILL	see Sólkatla
LAUG	see Sollaug
Lilja	see Sóllilja
MAJ	see Solmaj
MEY	see Salmøy
MUND	see Salmundr
NATT	see Náttsól
NY	see Salný
RAND	see Randarsól
RUN	see *Sǫlrún
STRÅLE	see Solstråle
VAR	see Sǫlvarr
VEIG	see Sǫlveig
VER	see *Sǫlvér
VÖR	see Sǫlvǫr

First Element Forms

Sa- Sal-
Sel-
So- Sol- *Sol- Sól-
Så-
Söl- Søl- Sǫl- *Sǫl-

Last Element Forms

-sol -sól

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Hjalmar Falk & Alf Torp: Etymologisk ordbok over det norske og det danske sprog (1999)
4. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
5. ↑ Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)