Given name
Maorolf
“Moor, dark skinned person”·“wolf”
Maorolf is a masculine given name from Proto-West Germanic. It is used in Old High German.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Maorolf is built from elements meaning “Moor, dark skinned person” and “wolf”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-West Germanic *Maurawulf, built from Proto-West Germanic *Maur (“Moor, dark skinned person”) + *wulf (“wolf”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Maorolf’s family of names
In Old High German usage, Maorolf shares a linguistic root with the Old English form Morwulf. In Old High German usage, Maorolf has a related form in Mōrolf.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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