Etymograph

English

Karin

Karin may come from Swedish Karin.

  1. SwedishmodernKarinuncertain
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2025same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. SwedishmodernKarinuncertain
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2025same form

Earliest quotation: 2025, Michael Williams: “US District Judge Karin Immergut on Saturday issued a…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *swé ‘self’

such, self, suicide, solo, idiot, sole, sans, solitary, solitude, desolate, desolation, solitaire, idiocy, sullen, swain, solus, sere, 19 more

Today it means

name A female given name from Danish [in turn from Ancient Greek Αἰκατερῑ́νη (Aikaterī́nē)], variant of Karen.

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

Etymograph / Swedish Karin / Karin

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