English

Wikstrom

Wikstrom comes from Swedish Wikström.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

A compound of vik ‘bay’ + ström ‘stream’

Proto-Indo-European *weyg- ‘to bend, curve’

Proto-Germanic *wīkō ‘bay, inlet, fjord’

Old Norse vík ‘a small bay, a cove, an inlet’

Swedish vik ‘bay’

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 Wikström

name A surname from Swedish.

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