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BARD
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Origin and Meaning
In Germanic names the meanings 'beard' and 'small axe' often got mixed up. In some cases the name element belongs rather to -bart/-bert (see BJÖRT) [1]
Ancient Germanic
Old Norse
barð = 'beard' [2]
barð = 'beard', 'brim', 'verge', 'beak' (of a ship), 'ship' [3]
barð = 'brim', 'verge', 'beak' (of a ship) [4]
Old Saxon
Anglo-Saxon
beard = 'brim', 'verge', 'beak' (of a ship) [4]
Middle English
berd = 'brim', 'verge', 'beak' (of a ship) [4]
Old High German
bart = 'beard' [6]
barta = 'little axe' [1]
Related Names
See Barði
Combinations
| Name Element |
Example |
|---|---|
| DAG | see Dagbart (Norse) |
| HAG | see Hagupart (German) |
| HLÉ | see Hlébarðr (Norse) |
| ING | see Ingbart |
| RAD | see Ráðbarðr |
Last Element Forms
-bard
-bardh
-barðr
-barður
-bart
-barth
-berd
-bol
-bor
-bordh
-part
-vart
-word
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
- ↑ Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Walter W. Skeat: The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology (1993)
- ↑ Wilhelm Schlaug: Studien zu den altsächsischen Personennamen des 11. und 12. Jahrhunderts (1955)
- ↑ Günther Drosdowski: Duden Etymologie - Herkunftswörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (1997)