English
Wallgren
Wallgren comes from Swedish Wallgren.
- SwedishmodernWallgren
- Englishtodaysame form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- SwedishmodernWallgren
- Englishtodaysame form
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 Wallgren
Today it means
name A surname from Swedish.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Swedish Wallgren / Wallgren