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Origin and Meaning
Indo-Germanic
*erebh- = 'dark reddish', 'brownish' [1]
Old Norse
jarpr = 'brown' [2] [3] [4] [5]
jarpr = 'dark brown' [6]
jarpr = 'fuscous' [7]
Old High German
erph = 'fuscous' [7]
erpf = 'brown' [5]
Old Saxon
erp = 'brown' [5]
Old English
erop = 'brown' [5]
eorp = 'fuscous' [7]
Icelandic
jarpur = 'brown' [8]
jarpur = 'fuscous' [8]
Related Names
Combinations
| Name Element |
Example |
|---|---|
| ULF | see IarpulfR (Norse) |
| VALD | see Earpweald (English) |
See also Erpamara
First Element Forms
References
- ↑ Hjalmar Falk & Alf Torp: Book: Etymologisk ordbok over det norske og det danske sprog|Etymologisk ordbok over det norske og det danske sprog]] (1999)
- ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
- ↑ Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)
- ↑ Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Günther Drosdowski: Duden Etymologie - Herkunftswörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (1997)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)