DÖGG

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Origin and Meaning

New name element

Dewdrop
Dewdrop
Image by Luc Viatour, www.Lucnix.be,[1]
License: Creative Commons, CC-BY-SA

Old Norse

dǫgg = 'dew', 'wetness' [2] [3]

Old High German

tou = 'dew', 'wetness' [3]

Old Saxon

dau = 'dew', 'wetness' [3]

Old Frisian

dāw = 'dew', 'wetness' [3]

Old English

déaw = 'dew', 'wetness' [4]

Swedish

dagg = 'dew' [3]

Related Names

See Dögg

Combinations

Name
Element    
Example
BORG see Bergdögg
GERD see Daugaard
IS see Ísdögg
ROS see Daggrós
SOL see Sóldögg
VIG see Vígdögg

First Element Forms

Dagg-
Dau-

Last Element Forms

-dögg

References

  1. Wikimedia Commons: Image by Luc Viatour, www.Lucnix.be, source & license
  2. Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)
  4. Elias Wessén: Våra ord (1997)