ROG

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Origin and Meaning

Germanic name element

Old Norse

vróg = 'slander', 'strife' [1]
vrōg = 'strife', 'slander' [2]
vrōg-r = 'strife', 'slander' [2]
róg = 'slander', 'calumny'; 'strife', 'quarrel' [1] [3] [4]

Gothic

wrōh-s = 'strife', 'slander' [2]
wrohs = 'slander', 'strife' [1]

Middle Low German

wrōch = 'strife', 'slander' [2]
wrōge = 'accusation' [2]

Middle High German

ruoge = 'accusation' [2]

Old Frisian

wrōgie = 'accusation' [2]

Anglo-Saxon

wrôht = 'slander', 'strife' [1]

Combinations

Name
Element    
Example
HVAT see Róghvatr

First Element Forms

Róg-

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson: An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)
  3. Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  4. Geir T. Zoëga: A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic (1910)