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Origin and Meaning
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| Viking swords Image by viciarg,[1] License: Creative Commons, CC-BY-SA |
See also AGI - these name elements are often very difficult to tell apart.
Ancient Germanic
*agi,ō = 'edge', 'sharpness' (of a weapon), 'sword' [2]
*aʒ- = 'edge', 'point' [3] [4]
Proto-Norse
Gothic
*agja = 'edge', 'sharpness' (of a weapon), 'sword' [2]
Old Norse
egg = 'edge' (of a weapon) [6]
Old Saxon
eggia = 'edge', 'sharpness' (of a weapon), 'sword' [2]
eggia = 'edge', 'sword' [7]
Old High German
ecka = 'edge', 'sharpness' (of a weapon), 'sword' [2]
ecke = 'edge', 'sharpness' (of a weapon) [8]
egga = 'edge', 'sharpness' (of a weapon), 'sword' [2]
Related Names
See Aghi, *AʒilaR, Agino, Agni, Aimo, Aise, Egin, Egon, Egte, Eike, Eileke, Ekke, Eino
Combinations
| Name Element |
Example |
|---|---|
| BJÖRN | see Ábiǫrn |
| BJÖRT | see Agilberaht (German) |
| DIARF | see *Agdiarfr |
| DIS | see *Agdis |
| FAST | see Áfastr |
| FRÍÐ | see Áfríðr |
| GAUT | see Ágautr |
| GEIR | see ÁgæiRR |
| GERD | see Ágærðr |
| GUNN | see Ågunn |
| GUT | see Águti |
| HARD | see Eginhart (German) and Egilhart (German) and Eckehard (German) |
| HER | see Agnarr (Norse) and Egilher (German) and Eigar (Norwegian) |
| LEIF | see Ægileif (Norse) |
| MAR | see Agimar (German) |
| MOD | see Ámóða |
| MUND | see *Agilamunduz |
| RUN | see Eggrún |
| STEIN | see Åstein |
| VALD | see Agvaldr (Norse) and Eginoald (German) |
| VARD | see Aghvardh |
| VID | see Agviðr |
| ÞOR | see Eggþóra |
First Element Forms
A-
Á-
Ag-
Agh-
Agi-
Agil-
Agila-
*Agila-
Aghn-
Agn-
Ai-
Ang-
Au-
Aug-
Augh-
Ech-
Eck-
Ecke-
Eg-
Egg-
Egil-
Egin-
Egino-
Eil-
Ejl-
Eyl-
Ein-
Ejn-
Ek-
El-
Eli-
En-
Ene-
Enn-
Í-
O-
Og-
Ogh-
Å-
Aa-
Ægen-
Ægi-
Ög-
Øg-
Ǫg-
References
- ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by viciarg, source & license
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
- ↑ Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Lena Peterson: Lexikon över urnordiska personnamn (2004)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Wilhelm Schlaug: Die altsächsischen Personennamen vor dem Jahre 1000 (1962)
- ↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
