Given name
Hlér
“the sea”
Hlér is a masculine given name from Old Norse (ultimately Proto-Indo-European), meaning “the sea.” It is used in Icelandic.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Hlér comes from Old Norse, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old Norse hlér (“the sea”), from Proto-Norse *ᚺᛚᛖᚹᚨᛉ (*Hlēwaʀ), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to shelter, cover”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Hlér’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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