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