Given name
Hrōþiwulf
“praise, fame”·“wolf”
Hrōþiwulf is a masculine given name from Proto-Germanic. It is used in Proto-West Germanic.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Hrōþiwulf is built from elements meaning “praise, fame” and “wolf”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Germanic *Hrōþiwulfaz, built from Proto-West Germanic *hrōþi (“praise, fame”) + *wulf (“wolf”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Hrōþiwulf’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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