Sven

See also: sven

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Swedish Svenbor.

English Sven

Borrowed from Swedish Sven.

Proper noun

Sven

1. A male given name from Swedish.
   • 2022 March 8, Sarah DeWeerdt, “Barcelona-style “superblocks” could make a surprising number of cities greener and less car-centric”, in Anthropocene Magazine‎^[1], archived from the original on 20 October 2022:

     “For many cities, the urban layout allows similar urban re-design strategies, even if the city is not a perfect model of the grid-like layout,” says Sven Eggimann, a researcher focusing on sustainable urban planning at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology in Dübendorf, who conducted the analysis. […] Eggimann used a computer algorithm to analyze data from the open-source geographic database OpenStreetMap and automatically detect areas with the superblock potential. He applied this analysis to 5 km x 5 km areas of the city center in 18 different cities around the world.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish Sven in the 20th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʋɛn/, /sfɛn/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Sven
• Rhymes: -ɛn

Proper noun

Sven

1. a male given name from Swedish

Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish Sven.

Proper noun

Sven

1. a male given name from Swedish

German

Alternative forms

• Swen

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish Sven.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /svɛn/, /tsvɛn/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Proper noun

Sven

1. a male given name from Swedish Sven

Derived terms

• Svenja, Swenja

Norwegian

Etymology

Variant of Svein.

Proper noun

Sven

1. a male given name

Swedish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse Sveinn; borne by three medieval kings of Denmark. Cognate with Faroese Sveinur, Icelandic Sveinn, Danish Svend, Norwegian Nynorsk Svein, and English Sweyn. Doublet of Soini.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /svɛn/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛn
• Rhymes: -ɛnː

Proper noun

Sven c (genitive Svens)

1. a male given name from Old Norse

Derived terms

• (surname) Svensson
• (surname) Svensdotter

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [2] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 113 813 males with the given name Sven living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1930s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Anagrams

• vens