TRYGG

From Nordic Names wiki - www.nordicnames.de - All rights reserved.

Name Element

Contents 1 Origin and Meaning 1.1 Old Norse 1.2 Gothic 2 Related Names 3 Combinations 4 First Element Forms 5 Last Element Forms 6 References

Origin and Meaning

Germanic name element

Old Norse

tryggr = 'trusty, true, safe' ^{[1] [2]}
tryggr = 'trusty, faithful' ^[3]
tryggr = 'trusty, fearless' ^[4]
tryggr = 'trusty, faithful, true; without apprehension, safe' ^[5]

Gothic

triggw-s = 'trusty, fearless' ^[4]

Related Names

See TryggR

Combinations

Name Element	Example
GEIR	see Geirtryggur
HER	see Hertryggr
SIG	see SigtryggR
U	see ÓtryggR
ULF	see TryggulfR
VALD	see Tryggvald

First Element Forms

Tryg- Trygg-

Last Element Forms

-tryg -trygg -tryggi -tryggr -tryggR -tryggur

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
4. ↑ Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)
5. ↑ Geir T. Zoëga: A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic (1910)