Olaf

See also: olaf and OLAF

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-der.

Proto-Germanic *anô

Proto-Indo-European *leyp-der.

Proto-Germanic *lībanąder.

Proto-Germanic *laibō

Proto-Germanic *Anulaibaz

Proto-Norse *ᚨᚾᚢᛚᚨᛁᛒᚨᛉ (*anulaibaʀ)

Old Norse Óláfrder.

English Olaf

Derived from Old Norse Óláfr.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊl.əf/, /ˈəʊl.æf/, /ˈəʊl.ɑːf/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊl.əf/, /ˈoʊl.æf/, /ˈoʊl.ɑːf/

Proper noun

Olaf

1. A male given name from Old Norse.
   • 1998, Garrison Keillor, Wobegon Boy, Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 71:

     And then all hundred and one of us trooped across the grass and onto the platform and got our diplomas from Mr. Halvorson, the superintendent of schools, and he said my name into the microphone―Tollefson, John Olaf―and there is was, the terrible secret of my middle name, revealed, and I slunk back to my seat and people whispered, 'Hey, Ole.'

Usage notes

• Best known for Olaf II (c. 995–29 July 1030), king and patron saint of Norway. Rarely used as a given name of English-speakers.

Translations

male given name

• Catalan: Olau
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奧拉夫 / 奥拉夫 (Àolāfū)

• Danish: Olaf, Olav
• Dutch: Olaf (nl)
• Estonian: Olev
• Faroese: Ólavur m
• Finnish: Olavi (fi)
• German: Olaf (de)
• Icelandic: Ólafur (is)
• Irish: Amhlaoibh

  Middle Irish: Amlaíb

• Italian: Olao (it)
• Latin: Olaus
• Latvian: Olafs m
• Lithuanian: Olafas m
• Manx: Aulee
• Marathi: ओलाफ m (olāph)
• Norwegian: Olav (no)
• Old Norse: Óláfr m
• Polish: Olaf (pl)
• Portuguese: Olavo (pt)
• Russian: Олаф (ru) (Olaf)
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: Ovllá

  Skolt Sami: Åʹll, Åållaž

• Scottish Gaelic: Amhladh, Amhlaidh, Amhlaigh, Amhlaibh
• Spanish: Olavo
• Swedish: Olof (sv)
• Vietnamese: Ô-láp

See also

• Oliver
• Humphrey

Anagrams

• AFOL, foal, loaf

Danish

Etymology

Derived from Old Norse Óláfr, from Proto-Norse *Anulaibaʀ.

Proper noun

Olaf

1. a male given name of Old Norse origin

Related terms

• Olav, Ole, Oluf

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoːlaf/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Proper noun

Olaf m (proper noun, strong, genitive Olafs or (with an article) Olaf)

1. a male given name from Old Norse

Related terms

• Ole

Norwegian

Proper noun

Olaf

1. a male given name of less common usage, variant of Olav

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• Olawær (Early Old Swedish), Olafuer, Olavus, Olaus

Etymology

Derived from Old Norse Óláfr, from Proto-Norse [script needed] (*Anulaibaʀ).

Proper noun

Olaf m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Olaf

Declension

Declension of Olaf

	singular
	indefinite
Nominative	Olaf
Accusative	Olaf
Dative	Olafi, Olafe
Genitive	Olafs

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-der.

Proto-Germanic *anô

Proto-Indo-European *leyp-der.

Proto-Germanic *lībanąder.

Proto-Germanic *laibō

Proto-Germanic *Anulaibaz

Proto-Norse *ᚨᚾᚢᛚᚨᛁᛒᚨᛉ (*anulaibaʀ)

Old Norse Óláfrder.

Polish Olaf

Derived from Old Norse Óláfr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.laf/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔlaf
• Syllabification: O‧laf

Proper noun

Olaf m pers

1. a male given name from Old Norse, equivalent to English Olaf

Declension

Declension of Olaf

	singular	plural
nominative	Olaf	Olafowie
genitive	Olafa	Olafów
dative	Olafowi	Olafom
accusative	Olafa	Olafów
instrumental	Olafem	Olafami
locative	Olafie	Olafach
vocative	Olafie	Olafowie

Further reading

• “Olaf”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)