English
Landgren
Landgren comes from Swedish Landgren.
- SwedishmodernLandgren
- Englishtodaysame form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- SwedishmodernLandgren
- Englishtodaysame form
A compound of land ‘land’ + gren ‘branch’
Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- ‘land, heath’
Proto-Germanic *landą ‘land, area of ground’
Old Norse land ‘land’
Old Swedish land ‘land’
Swedish land ‘land’
Proto-Germanic *grainiz ‘twig, branch, limb’
Old Norse grein ‘branch (of a tree)’
Swedish gren ‘branch’
Every English word from Swedish Landgren
Today it means
name A surname from Swedish.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Swedish Landgren / Landgren