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BIF
Contents
Origin and Meaning
Germanic name element (see also BIFA)
Old Norse
bif = 'movement', 'air', 'water' [1]
bif- = 'to quake' [2]
bifa = 'to shake', 'to tremble' [3] [4]
bīfa = 'tremble', 'shake', 'quake' [4]
bifast = 'to shake', 'to tremble', 'to fear', 'to move' [5]
bifast = 'to shake', 'to tremble', 'to move' [3]
Old High German
bība = 'tremble', 'shake', 'quake' [4]
biben = 'to shake', 'to tremble' [1]
Old Frisian
bevia = 'to shake', 'to tremble' [4]
bivia = 'to shake', 'to tremble' [4]
Old Saxon
biƀōn = 'to shake', 'to tremble' [4]
bivon = 'to shake', 'to tremble' [1]
Anglo-Saxon
beofan = 'to shake', 'to tremble' [5]
beofjan = 'to shake', to tremble' [1]
Old English
bifian = 'to shake', 'to tremble' [4]
bīfian = 'tremble', 'shake', 'quake' [4]
Middle High German
bīben = 'tremble', 'shake', 'quake' [4]
German
beben = 'to shake', 'to tremble' [5]
Combinations
| Name Element |
Example |
|---|---|
| LID | see Bifliði (Norse) |
| LIND | see Biflindi (Norse) |
First Element Forms
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Dr. Ernst Förstemann: Altdeutsches namenbuch (1856)
- ↑ Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson: An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)