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Origin and Meaning
Usually, names associated with this name element belong to HLIF instead. But there are exceptions. [1] [2]
Proto-Norse
Old Norse
líf = 'life' [4] [3] [2]
līf = 'life', 'lifetime', 'body', 'person' [5]
Old High German
līb = 'life', 'lifetime', 'body', 'person' [5]
Old Saxon
līf = 'life', 'lifetime', 'body', 'person' [5]
Old Frisian
līf = 'life', 'lifetime', 'body', 'person' [5]
Old English
līf = 'life', 'lifetime', 'body', 'person' [5]
Related Names
See Líf
Combinations
| Name Element |
Example |
|---|---|
| AI | see *Aiwa-līƀaR |
| DIS | see Lífdís |
| EIN | see *Aina-līƀaR |
| ÞRAS | see Lífþrasir |
First Element Forms
Last Element Forms
-lf
-lfferr
lfwer-
-līƀaR
-lif
-líf
-lífr
-lífR
-lifuer
-lífur
lifver
-liv
-lívur
-lver
References
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
- ↑ Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)