The story
- Proto-Germanic · derived from*ernustuz
- Old High German · derived fromernust“vigor, strife”
- German · borrowed fromErnst
- English todayErnst
Borrowed from German Ernst, a medieval royal name in Germany, from Old High German ernust (“vigor, strife”), from Proto-Germanic *ernustuz. Doublet of earnest.
Words from the same roots
Old High Germanernust all →
ernest
Proto-Germanic*ernustuz all →
earnest
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.