English

Englund

Englund comes from Swedish Englund.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

A compound of äng ‘meadow’ + lund ‘grove’

Proto-Indo-European *h₂enk- ‘to bend’

Proto-Indo-European *h₂énkos ‘a bend’

Proto-Germanic *angijō ‘a low lying meadow in a valley or near a river’

Old Norse eng ‘meadow’

Old Swedish æng

Swedish äng ‘meadow’

Old Norse lundr ‘grove, clump of trees’

Old Swedish lunder

Swedish lund ‘grove’

Every English word from Swedish Englund

name A surname from Swedish.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.