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Origin and Meaning
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| Lion Image by Kevin Pluck,[1] licensed under Creative Commons |
Germanic name element, perhaps related to LEO or LYD
Ancient Germanic
*lewa(n)- = uncertain meaning [2]
Old High German
lewo = 'lion' [3] [4] [5]
leo = 'lion' [6] [4]
Old Saxon
leo = 'lion' [6]
Old Norse
leó = 'lion' [7]
león = 'lion' [7]
ljón = 'lion' [7]
Related Names
Combinations
| Name Element |
Example |
|---|---|
| EY | see Ljóney (Norse) |
| FRID | see Leofred (German) |
| HARD | see Leonhard (German) |
| NOR | see Leonor (Norse) |
First Element Forms
Le-
Len-
Lenn-
Leo-
Leon-
Leun-
Levn-
Ljón-
Last Element Forms
References
- ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by Kevin Pluck, source & license
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Dr. Ernst Förstemann: Altdeutsches namenbuch (1856)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Geir T. Zoëga: A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic (1910)
