Gunnarr
Old Norse
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse gunnr (“fight”) and -arr from Proto-Germanic *harjaz (“warrior”), from Proto-Germanic *Gunþiharjaz. Cognates include: German Günther, Gunther.
Proper noun
editGunnarr m
- a male given name
Descendants
edit- Icelandic: Gunnar
- Faroese: Gunnar
- Norwegian: Gunna(r), Gon(n)ar, Gunnår
- Old Swedish: Gunnar
- Swedish: Gunnar
- Danish: Gunder, → Gunnar
- → Estonian: Gunnar, Kunnar
References
edit- Gunnar; in: Eivind Vågslid, Norderlendske fyrenamn, 1988, →ISBN