Etymology

Arbogast

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Today it means: A surname. Full definition →

Proto-West Germanic *arbī
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The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic · derived from*arbī“inheritance”
  2. English todayArbogast

Southwest German and French surname, of Germanic origin, corresponding to Proto-West Germanic *arbī (“inheritance”) + *gasti (“stranger”).

Words from the same roots

Proto-West Germanic*arbī all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.