Name Element
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Origin and Meaning
Germanic name element
Old Norse
þunnr = 'thin' [1] [2] [3] [4]
þunnr = 'thin', 'standing apart', 'clear', 'weak' [5]
Old High German
thunni = 'thin', 'standing apart', 'clear', 'weak' [5]
Old Saxon
thunni = 'thin', 'standing apart', 'clear', 'weak' [5]
Old Frisian
thenne = 'thin', 'standing apart', 'clear', 'weak' [5]
Old English
ðynne = 'thin', 'standing apart', 'clear, weak' [5]
Combinations
First Element Forms
Þunn-
References
- ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
- ↑ Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
- ↑ Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson: An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)
- ↑ Geir T. Zoëga: A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic (1910)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)