Etymology

Lyng

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Today it means: A village and civil parish in Breckland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG0617). Full definition →

Norwegian lyng
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The story

  1. Norwegian · borrowed fromlyng“heather”
  2. English todayLyng

Ornamental surname borrowed from Danish and Norwegian lyng (“heather”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.