Name Element
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Origin and Meaning
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Common Tern
Image by Joby Joseph,[1] licensed under Creative Commons |
Germanic name element, sometimes believed to be related to Old Norse þerna = 'tern', 'sea swallow (bird)' instead
Ancient Germanic
*þewerno = 'virgin', 'maid' [2]
Old High German
thiorna = 'virgin', 'maid' [2]
Middle High German
dierne = 'virgin', 'maid' [2]
Middle Low German
dērne = 'virgin', 'maid' [2]
dêrne = 'virgin', 'maid' [3]
Old Norse
þerna = 'maid-servant' [4] [5] [3]
þērna = 'maid-servant' [6]
Old Swedish
thærna = 'maid-servant' [3]
Swedish
tärna = 'girl', 'maid' [2] [3]
Low German
Deern = 'virgin', 'maid' [2]
Related Names
See Terna
Combinations
Last Element Forms
-terna
-þerna
References
- ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by Joby Joseph, source & license
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Günther Drosdowski: Duden Etymologie - Herkunftswörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (1997)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Elias Wessén: Våra ord (1997)
- ↑ Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
- ↑ Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson: An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)
- ↑ Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)