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Origin and Meaning
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| Heathland Image by 'Willow',[1] licensed under Creative Commons |
Germanic name element and Old English name element
Ancient Germanic
*haiþiō = 'forest', 'uncultivated land, 'untilled land, 'tract of wasteland' [2]
Gothic
Old Norse
heiðr = 'a low barren heath or fell' [3] [4]
Old Swedish
heþ = 'a low barren heath or fell' [3]
Swedish
hed = 'heath' [3]
Old High German
heida = 'heath' [2]
Old Saxon
hæð = 'heath' [4]
hêthan = 'heath' [5]
Old English
hǣþ = 'heath' [6]
Related Names
Combinations
| Name Element |
Example |
|---|---|
| LEAH | see Hedley |
| MANN | see Heitmann |
First Element Forms
Last Element Forms
References
- ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by 'Willow', source & license
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Günther Drosdowski: Duden Etymologie - Herkunftswörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (1997)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Elias Wessén: Våra ord (1997)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson: An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)
- ↑ Wilhelm Schlaug: Die altsächsischen Personennamen vor dem Jahre 1000 (1962)
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
