Name Element
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Origin and Meaning
Germanic name element
Old Norse
forn = 'old', 'ancient' [1] [2] [3]
forn = 'old', 'heathen' [4]
Gothic
faírnei-s = 'old', 'heathen' [4]
Old High German
firni = 'old', 'heathen' [4]
Middle High German
fern = 'old', 'heathen' [4]
Old Saxon
fern = 'old', 'heathen' [4]
Old English
fiern = 'old', 'heathen' [4]
Realted Names
See Forni
Combinations
First Element Forms
Forn-
References
- ↑ Geir T. Zoëga: A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic (1910)
- ↑ Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson: An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)
- ↑ Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)