Name Element
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Origin and Meaning
Germanic name element
See also LIN and LÍN
Old Norse
hlín = 'protection' [1] [2]
hlín = 'woman' (poetic)
hleina = 'to safe', 'protect' [3]
English
lean = 'to lean' [3]
Related Names
See Hlín
Combinations
Last Element Forms
-lín
References
- ↑ Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)
- ↑ Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson: An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)