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Contents
Origin and Meaning
Germanic name element, see also VID
Ancient Germanic
Proto-Norse
Old Norse
víðr = 'wide', 'large', 'extensive' [3] [4] [5]
vīðr = 'wide', 'spacious', 'thick' [6]
vîðr = 'wide' [1] [7]
Old Swedish
viþer = 'wide', 'far' [5]
Old High German
wit = 'wide', 'big' [8]
wīt = 'wide', 'spacious', 'thick' [6]
wīt = 'wide', 'far' [9]
wît = 'wide' [1]
Middle High German
wīt = 'wide', 'far' [9]
Old Saxon
wīd = 'wide', 'spacious', 'thick' [6]
wîd = 'wide' [1]
Old Frisian
wîd = 'wide' [1]
Anglo-Saxon
wíd = 'wide' [4]
wîd = 'wide' [1]
Old English
wīd = 'wide', 'spacious', 'thick' [6]
Related Names
Combinations
| Name Element |
Example |
|---|---|
| ALA | see Alawīdaz |
| BJÖRN | see Vidbjørn |
| FAR | see Víðfari |
| HEIL | see Heiluid (German) |
| HER | see Víðarr |
| HUG | see Víðhugsi |
| ING | see Ingvid |
| RUN | see Vidrun |
First Element Forms
Last Element Forms
-oise
-uid
-vid
-wīdaz
-widis
-widuz
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Hjalmar Falk & Alf Torp: Book: Etymologisk ordbok over det norske og det danske sprog|Etymologisk ordbok over det norske og det danske sprog]] (1999)
- ↑ Lena Peterson: Lexikon över urnordiska personnamn (2004)
- ↑ Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Walter W. Skeat: The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology (1993)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Elias Wessén: Våra ord (1997)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)
- ↑ Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Günther Drosdowski: Duden Etymologie - Herkunftswörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (1997)