Given name & surname · also German
Scharnhorst
“dirty, damp”·“wooded hill”
Scharnhorst is a surname from German, ultimately from Proto-Germanic.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Scharnhorst is built from elements meaning “dirty, damp” and “wooded hill”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Scharnhorst comes from German, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From German Scharnhorst, from Low German Scharnhorst, from Middle Low German Scharnhorst, from Old Saxon *skarn, from Proto-Germanic *skarną.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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