English

Wahlgren

Wahlgren comes from Swedish Wahlgren.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

A compound of vall ‘pasture’ + gren ‘branch’

Proto-Indo-European *wel- ‘to see, perceive’

Proto-Germanic *walþuz ‘forest’

Old Norse vǫllr ‘field, flat ground, meadow’

Swedish vall ‘pasture’

Proto-Germanic *grainiz ‘twig, branch, limb’

Old Norse grein ‘branch (of a tree)’

Swedish gren ‘branch’

Every English word from Swedish Wahlgren

name A surname from Swedish.

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