DÚFA

Name Element

Origin and Meaning

Dove
Image by Felix Abraham,^[1]
licensed as public domain

Germanic name element

Gothic

dūbō = 'dove' ^[2]
dwbo = 'dove' ^[3]

Old Norse

dúfa = 'dove', 'pigeon' or 'wave' (poet.) ^[4]

Swedish

dufva = 'dove' ^[3]
duva = 'dove' ^[2]

Danish

due = 'dove' ^[3]

Old High German

tūba = 'dove' ^[2]
tuba = 'dove' ^[3]

Middle High German

tūbe = 'dove' ^[2]

German

Taube = 'dove', 'pigeon' ^[2] ^[3]

Frisian

do = 'dove' ^[5]
dou = 'dove' ^[5]

Dutch

duif = 'dove' ^[5]

Anglo-Saxon

duva = 'dove' ^[3]

English

dove = 'dove' ^[2] ^[3]

Related Names

See Dúfa, Dyveke

Combinations

Name Element	Example
GERD	see Daugaard

First Element Forms

Dau-

References

↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by Felix Abraham, source & license
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 Günther Drosdowski: Duden Etymologie - Herkunftswörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (1997)
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 ^3.4 ^3.5 ^3.6 Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson: An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)
↑ Geir T. Zoëga: A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic (1910)
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 Rienk de Haan: Fryske foarnammen (2002)

[1] Wikimedia Commons: Image by Felix Abraham, source & license

[her-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 Günther Drosdowski: Duden Etymologie - Herkunftswörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (1997)

[cv-3] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 ^3.4 ^3.5 ^3.6 Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson: An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)

[zoe-4] Geir T. Zoëga: A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic (1910)

[fry-5] 5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 Rienk de Haan: Fryske foarnammen (2002)

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