English
Hultgren
Hultgren comes from Swedish Hultgren.
- SwedishmodernHultgren
- Englishtodaysame form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- SwedishmodernHultgren
- Englishtodaysame form
A compound of hult ‘forest’ + gren ‘branch’
Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- ‘to beat, break’
Proto-Germanic *hultą ‘wood’
Old Norse holt ‘wood’
Old Swedish hult
Swedish hult ‘forest’
Proto-Germanic *grainiz ‘twig, branch, limb’
Old Norse grein ‘branch (of a tree)’
Swedish gren ‘branch’
Every English word from Swedish Hultgren
Today it means
name A surname from Swedish.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Swedish Hultgren / Hultgren