Etymology

Berengar

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Today it means: A male given name of historical usage. Full definition →

Germanic ← Proto-Germanic *berô
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*berô“bear”
  2. Germanic · derived from
  3. English todayBerengar

A Germanic name, with the constituents ultimately going back to Proto-Germanic *berô (“bear”) and *gaizaz (“spear”).

Words from the same roots

Proto-Germanic*berô all →

bearborebier

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.