Arne

See also: arne and arnë

English

Etymology

Short form of Old Norse compound names beginning with arn- (eagle).

Proper noun

Arne

  1. A male given name occasionally used in English.

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Danish

Etymology

Old Norse Arni, Árni, short forms of names beginning with Old Norse ǫrn (eagle).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /arnə/, [ˈɑːnə]

Proper noun

Arne

  1. A male given name.

References

  • Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 36 874 males with the given name Arne have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1920s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

German

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Arne

  1. A male given name borrowed from Scandinavia; cognate to German Arno.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἄρνη (Árnē).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Arnē f (genitive Arnēs); first declension

  1. A town of Thessaly, colony of Boeotia
  2. A town of Boeotia

Inflection

First declension, Greek type.

Case Singular
Nominative Arnē
Genitive Arnēs
Dative Arnae
Accusative Arnēn
Ablative Arnē
Vocative Arnē

References

  • Arne in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Arne in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Arne in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Norwegian

Etymology

From Old Norse Arni, short form of given names beginning with Arn-, ǫrn (eagle).

Proper noun

Arne

  1. A male given name.

Usage notes

  • The most common given name of men born in Norway in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s.

References

  • Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
  • Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 27 032 males with the given name Arne living in Norway on 1 January 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1920s. Accessed on 29 April 2011.

Swedish

Etymology

Old Norse Arni. A runic name revived in 1862.

Proper noun

Arne c (genitive Arnes)

  1. A male given name.
  • (surnames) Arnesson

References

  • Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
  • Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 66 800 males with the given name Arne living in Sweden on 31 December 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1920s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
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