Etymology

Lund

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Today it means: An unincorporated village in the Regional District of qathet, British Columbia, Canada. Full definition →

Old Norse lundr ← Danish lund
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The story

  1. Danish · derived fromlund“little forest”
  2. Old Norse · derived fromlundr“grove”
  3. English todayLund

* As an English, German, and North Germanic surname, from Old Norse lundr (“grove”). * Also as a German surname, from Lunden in Dithmarschen, itself possibly borrowed from Danish lund (“little forest”) or lunn (“survey”).

Words from the same roots

Old Norselundr all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.