English
Youngstrom
Youngstrom may come from Swedish Ungström.
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attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
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A compound of ung ‘young’ + ström ‘stream, current’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁en- ‘young’
Proto-Germanic *jungaz ‘young’
Old Norse ungr ‘young’
Swedish ung ‘young’
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, current’
The story
Americanized spelling of either Swedish Ungström, which is from ung (‘young’) + ström (‘stream, current’), or Swedish Ljungström, from ljung (‘heather’) + ström (‘stream, current’).
Every English word from Swedish Ungström
Today it means
name A surname from Swedish.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Swedish Ungström / Youngstrom