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ORM
Contents
Origin and Meaning
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| Snake Image by unknown,[1] License: public domain |
Ancient Germanic
*vŗmo- = 'snake', 'serpent' [2]
*vŗmi- = 'snake', 'serpent' [2]
Proto-Norse
*wurmaR = 'snake', 'serpent' [3]
Old Norse
ormr = 'snake', 'serpent' [4] [3] [5] [6] [2]
ormr = 'snake', 'serpent', 'dragon' [7]
ormr = 'worm', 'snake' [8]
Gothic
waúrm-s = 'snake', 'serpent', 'dragon' [7]
waúrms = 'snake', 'serpent' [9] [2]
waurms = 'worm', 'snake' [8]
Old Swedish
ormber = 'snake', 'serpent' [6]
Old Saxon
wurm = 'snake', 'serpent, 'dragon' [7]
wurm = 'snake', 'serpent' [2]
Old High German
wurm = 'snake', 'serpent', 'dragon' [7]
wurm = 'crawler', 'snake', 'serpent', 'insect' [9]
wurm = 'snake', 'serpent' [2]
Middle High German
wurm = 'crawler', 'snake', 'serpent', 'insect' [9]
Old Frisian
wirm = 'snake', 'serpent', 'dragon' [7]
Anglo-Saxon
wyrm = 'snake', 'serpent' [9] [2]
wyrm = 'worm', 'snake' [8]
Old English
wyrm = 'snake', 'serpent', 'dragon' [7]
Related names
See Ormr
Combinations
| Name Element |
Example |
|---|---|
| FRÍÐ | see Ormfríðr |
| GEIR | see OrmgæiRR |
| GUD | see *Goð-ormR |
| HALL | see Hallormr |
| HEID | see Ormheiður |
| HER | see *Wurmaharjaz (Norse), Wurmhari (German), Wurmhere (English) |
| HILD | see Ormhildr |
| KETILL | see Ketilormr and Ormkell |
| LAUG | see Ormlög |
| LINN | see Lindorm |
| LYNG | see LingormR |
| ODD | see Uddorm |
| RAD | see Ráðormr |
| STEIN | see Ormsteinn |
| ULF | see OrmulfR |
| VIKING | see Ormsvíkingur |
| ÞOR | see Þórormr |
First Element Forms
Last Element Forms
-ar
-er
-or
-orm
-ormr
-ormR
-órmR
-ormur
References
- ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by unknown, source & license
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Hjalmar Falk & Alf Torp: Book: Etymologisk ordbok over det norske og det danske sprog|Etymologisk ordbok over det norske og det danske sprog]] (1999)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
- ↑ Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Elias Wessén: Våra ord (1997)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Walter W. Skeat: The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology (1993)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Günther Drosdowski: Duden Etymologie - Herkunftswörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (1997)
