Given name
Sweyn
“boy, servant”
Sweyn is a masculine given name from Old Norse.
Original Old NorseSveinn
Meaning & origin
What it means
Sweyn goes back to Old Norse sveinn, meaning “boy, servant.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Sweyn developed from Sveinn.
Sweyn’s family of names
In English usage, Sweyn shares a linguistic root with the Swedish form Sven. In English usage, Sweyn was borrowed from the Old Norse form Sveinn. In English usage, Sweyn shares a linguistic root with the Norwegian Nynorsk form Svein.
The ring: across languages.
Around the world
Sweyn has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Old Norse roots to each of them.
Old Norsewhere Sweyn comes from · 1 name
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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