From*bernuz(“bear”).[1][2][3] Possibly cognate toOld Englishbeorn(“warrior”).
bjǫrn m (genitivebjarnar,dativebirni,pluralbirnir)
- bear (animal)
- ^Kroonen, Guus Jann (2009),Consonant and vowel gradation in the Proto-Germanicn-stems (PhD thesis)[1], Leiden: Leiden University, page26: “bjǫrn m. ‘bear’ < *bernu-”
- ^Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*beran- 2”, inEtymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series;11)[2], Leiden, Boston:Brill,→ISBN,pages59-60: “In Nordic, it was replaced by theu-stem*bernu-, cf. ONbjǫrn, Far.bjørn (f.), Elfd.byönn, which split off from the acc.pl. case*bernuns <*bʰer-n-ń̥s”
- ^Torp, Alf (1919), “Bjørn”, inNynorsk Etymologisk Ordbok, Oslo: H. Aschehoug and Co. (W. Nygaard), page26: “Nordisk stamme *bernu- av ældre *beran”
