Hwitaridh

Old Swedish

Etymology

By surface analysis, Hvite or hwit +‎ ridh. First attested in 1399.[1]

  • First half may be Hvite (“a male name”). It may also be hviter (“white”); the reason is unknown.[1]
  • Second half might be related with ryd (“clearing”). It may also be related with rör (“cairn”); if so, it might refer to the Vittaryd labyrinth.[1]

Proper noun

Hwitaridh

  1. a locality and former parish in the former Sunnerbo hundred in the historical country of Finnveden, now in Ljungby municipality, Kronoberg county, Sweden; modern Vittaryd

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Svenskt ortnamnslexikon (2016), page 362, by Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore and Uppsala University Department of Scandinavian Languages
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