The story
- Old Norse · derived frombýr“farmstead”
- Old English · derived fromBeornwald
- English todayBarnaby
* English surname of Aramaic origin, from בַּר נְבִיָּא (bar nəḇiyyā, literally “prophet’s son”). * Also as an English surname, from Old English Beornwald, from beorn (“young warrior”) + wealdan (“rule”) + Old Norse býr (“farmstead”).
Words from the same roots
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.