Given name · also Old Norse
-ey
“luck, fortune”
-ey is a feminine given name, possibly from Old Norse (ultimately Proto-Germanic) and perhaps meaning “luck, fortune.” It is used in Icelandic.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
-ey possibly comes from Old Norse, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Possibly from Old Norse ey (“luck, fortune”), from Proto-Germanic *awją.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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