Given name
Teitur
“glad, cheerful, merry, gay”
Teitur is a masculine given name from Old Norse, meaning “glad, cheerful, merry, gay.” It is used in Faroese and Icelandic.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Old Norse teitr (“glad, cheerful, merry, gay”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
People named Teitur
- Teitur ThordarsonIcelandic association football player and manager (born 1952)
- Teitur LassenFaroese musicianborn 1977
- Teitur GestssonFaroese footballerborn 1992
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