Given name · also Old Norse
Hervör
Hervör is a feminine given name from Old Norse, ultimately from Proto-Germanic. It is used in Icelandic.
Original Old NorseHervarðr
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Hervör comes from Old Norse, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old Norse Hervǫr, from Proto-Germanic *Harjawarō.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Hervör’s family of names
In Icelandic usage, Hervör shares a linguistic root with the Old Norse form Hervarðr.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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