Given name
Þorgeir
“thunder”·“spear”
Þorgeir is a masculine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Icelandic.
Original Old NorseÞorgeirr
Meaning & origin
What it means
Þorgeir is built from elements meaning “thunder” and “spear”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old Norse Þorgeirr, built from Old Norse þórr (“thunder”) + geirr (“spear”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Þorgeir’s family of names
In Icelandic usage, Þorgeir shares a linguistic root with the Norwegian Bokmål form THORGEIR. In Icelandic usage, Þorgeir continues an earlier form in Þorgeirr. In Icelandic usage, Þorgeir shares a linguistic root with the Norwegian Bokmål form Torgeir.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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