FRAM

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Origin and Meaning

Germanic name element related to FRUM

Old Norse

fram = 'forward', 'outwards', 'on the fore part', 'in front' [1] [2]
fram = 'forward', 'later', 'further' [3]
framr = 'brave', 'righteous'

Combinations

Name
Element    
Example
HER see Framarr

First Element Forms

Fram-

References

  1. Geir T. Zoëga: A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic (1910)
  2. Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson: An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)
  3. Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)