English
Sundberg
Sundberg comes from Swedish Sundberg.
- SwedishmodernSundberg
- Englishtodaysame form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- SwedishmodernSundberg
- Englishtodaysame form
A compound of sund ‘sound, strait’ + berg ‘mountain’
Proto-Indo-European *sm̥tóm
Proto-Germanic *sundą ‘swimming’
Old Norse sund
Swedish sund ‘sound, strait’
Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- ‘to rise up, ascend’
Proto-Germanic *bergaz ‘hill, mountain’
Old Norse bjarg
Swedish berg ‘mountain’
Every English word from Swedish Sundberg
Today it means
name A surname from Swedish.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Swedish Sundberg / Sundberg