STARK

Origin and Meaning

Old Norse

starkr = 'strong', 'healthy' ^[1]
stark-r = 'strong', 'healthy' ^[2]
sterkr = 'strong', 'stark', 'big' ^[1]
stėrk-r = 'strong', 'stark', 'big' ^[2]

Gothic

*stark-s = 'strong', 'healthy' ^[2]

Old High German

stark = 'strong', 'healthy' ^[2]

Old Saxon

stark = 'strong', 'healthy' ^[2]

Old Frisian

sterk = 'strong', 'healthy' ^[2]

Old English

stearc = 'strong', 'healthy' ^[2]

Related Names

See Sterki

Combinations

Name Element	Example
HAD	see Starkaðr
U	see Óstarki
ULF	see Sterkolv
VIG	see Vígsterkr

First Element Forms

Stark-
Sterk-
Störk-

Last Element Forms

-starki
-sterkr

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 ^2.6 Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)

[nord-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)

[awn-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 ^2.6 Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)

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