Given name
Gaiʀahard
“spear”·“brave, hard”
Gaiʀahard is a masculine given name from Proto-Germanic, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European. It is used in Proto-West Germanic.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Gaiʀahard is built from elements meaning “spear” and “brave, hard”.
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Where it comes from
Gaiʀahard comes from Proto-Germanic, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Germanic *harduz, from Proto-Indo-European *kret-, built from Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀ (“spear”) + *hard(ī) (“brave, hard”).
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Gaiʀahard’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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