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Origin of the name ROGER.
Etymology of the
name ROGER.
Meaning of the baby name ROGER.
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ROGER.
English and French. The same as Rodger
(q.v.), Anglo-Saxon Hroðgar (O.N.
Hróðgeirr), Teutonic
Hruodgar
(q.v.), all meaning
"famous spear." (History of Christian Names, Yonge, 1884).
... Old German Hrödgar,
Crodeger, 7th cent.—Anglo-Saxon Hrothgar
(Beowulf)—Old Norse Hrothgeir—Roeger,
Lib. Vit.—Roger, Domesday—English Rodger, Croager—Modern
German Rödger, Roger—French
Roger...
... ROGER, RODGER is the same as Old Norse Geirraudr inverted, and corresponds with a
Hrodgeir in the Landnamabok, the Hroðgar of Beowulf, and the Old German
Rüdiger. (The Teutonic Name-system &c., Ferguson, 1864).
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