Given name
Hergjest
“army”·“guest”
Hergjest is a masculine given name from Proto-Germanic. It is used in Norwegian Nynorsk.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Hergjest is built from elements meaning “army” and “guest”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Germanic *Harjagastiz, built from Norwegian Nynorsk her (“army”) + gjest (“guest”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Hergjest’s family of names
In Norwegian Nynorsk usage, Hergjest shares a linguistic root with the Old High German form Herigast.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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