Where does “Jørgensen” come from?
Jørgensen (Danish) comes from Danish Jørgen, from Low German Jürgen, from Middle Low German Jurian, from Latin Georgius, from Ancient Greek Γεώργιος, from Ancient Greek γεωργός, from Ancient Greek γεω-, from Latin -logia — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
Ancestry of “Jørgensen”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danish | Jørgen | — |
| 2 | Low German | Jürgen | — |
| 3 | Middle Low German | Jurian | — |
| 4 | Latin | Georgius | — |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | Γεώργιος | farmer, earth-worker |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | γεωργός | tilling the ground; fertilizing; farmer |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | γεω- | earth; earth- |
| 8 | Latin | -logia | -logy; the study of |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | -λογία | Base for nouns denoting the study of something,... |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | λόγος | That which is said: word, sentence, speech,... |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | λέγω | I put in order, arrange, gather; I choose, count,... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |