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Name Element

Contents 1 Origin and Meaning 1.1 Ancient Germanic 1.2 Old Norse 1.3 Old Saxon 1.4 Anglo-Saxon 1.5 Middle English 1.6 Old High German 1.7 Middle High German 2 Related Names 3 Combinations 4 First Element Forms 5 Last Element Forms 6 References

Origin and Meaning

Germanic name element

Ancient Germanic

*íwaz = 'yew tree' ^[1]

Old Norse

ýr = 'yew tree, bow' ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

Old Saxon

îch = 'yew tree' ^[6]

Anglo-Saxon

íw = 'yew tree' ^[7]

Middle English

ew = 'yew tree' ^[7]

Old High German

íwa = 'yew tree, bow' ^{[8] [5]}
îwa = 'yew tree' ^[6]

Middle High German

îwe = 'yew tree' ^[5]

Related Names

See Ýr and Ivan and Ivo

Combinations

Name Element	Example
HER	see Ívarr
VALD	see Ívaldi

First Element Forms

I- Í- Iv- Ív-

Last Element Forms

References

1. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
2. ↑ Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
3. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
4. ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
5. ↑ Günther Drosdowski: Duden Etymologie - Herkunftswörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (1997)
6. ↑ Wilhelm Schlaug: Die altsächsischen Personennamen vor dem Jahre 1000 (1962)
7. ↑ Walter W. Skeat: The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology (1993)
8. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)