Given name & surname · also Norwegian
Tvedt
Tvedt is a surname from Norwegian, ultimately from Old Norse.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Tvedt comes from Norwegian, and ultimately from Old Norse.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Tvedt’s family of names
In English usage, Tvedt as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Thwaite.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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