Sverrir
Icelandic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Sverrir m (proper noun, genitive singular Sverris)
- a male given name
Declension
[edit]Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a word meaning "spinning, swinging," according to Pokorny, from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to hiss, ring, whistle”); see also svarmr.
Proper noun
[edit]Sverrir m
- a male given name
Declension
[edit] Declension of Sverrir (strong ija-stem, indefinite singular only)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ‘sverre’ in Behind the Name, Mike Campbell, 1996.
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) “3023”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 3023
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