Given name
Jósteinn
“horse”·“stone”
Jósteinn is a masculine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Icelandic.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Jósteinn is built from elements meaning “horse” and “stone”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old Norse Jósteinn, built from Icelandic jór (“horse”) + steinn (“stone”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Jósteinn’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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