English

Renstrom

Renstrom comes from Swedish Renström.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

A compound of ren ‘reindeer’ + ström ‘stream’

Proto-Germanic *hrainaz

Old Norse hreinn ‘reindeer’

Swedish ren ‘reindeer’

Proto-Indo-European *srew- ‘to flow’

Proto-Indo-European *srówmos

Proto-Germanic *straumaz ‘stream, current, river’

Old Norse straumr ‘a stream, a current, a race, a river’

Old Swedish strömber

Swedish ström ‘stream’

Every English word from Swedish Renström

name A surname from Swedish.

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