Óláfr

• ᚢᛚᛅᚠᛦ (ulafʀ), ᚬᛚᛅᚠᛦ (ąlafʀ), ᚢᛚᛅᚠᚱ (ulafr) — Runic form
• Ǫ́láfr, Óleifr, Áleifr, Ǫ́leifr

From earlier Ǫ́leifr, from Proto-Norse *ᚨᚾᚢᛚᚨᛁᛒᚨᛉ (*anulaibaʀ), from Proto-Germanic *Anulaibaz (whence Old English Ānlāf), consisting of *anô (“ancestor”) and *laibō (“remainder”).

The first part of the name is cognate to German Ahn (“ancestor”) and Latin anus (“old woman”).

• (9th century West Norse) IPA^(key): /ˈɒ̃ːlæɪβɹ̝/, [ˈɒ̃ː.læɪβ̥ɹ̻̊˔]
• (13th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈoːlɒːvr/

Óláfr m

1. a male given name

• ⇒ Old Norse: Óli (nickname)
  • Icelandic: Óli
  • Faroese: Óli
  • Norwegian: Ole
  • Swedish: Olle
  • Danish: Ole
  • → Finnish: Olli
• Icelandic: Áleifur, Ólafur
• Faroese: Ólavur
• Norwegian: Olav, Ola, → Olaf
• Old Swedish: Olawær
  • Swedish: Olof, Olov
• Danish: Olaf, Olav, Oluf
• → English: Olaf
• → Estonian: Olev
• → Finnish: Olavi, Uolevi
• → Byzantine Greek: Ἱούλαβος (Hioúlabos)
• → Latin: Olaus
  • → Faroese: Lávus
• → Middle Irish: Amlaíb (< Ǫ́lęifr, with nasal ǫ́-)
  • Irish: Amhlaoibh
  • Manx: Aulee
  • Scottish Gaelic: Amhlaidh, Amhlaigh
• → Polish: Olaf
• → Portuguese: Olavo
• → Skolt Sami: Åʹll, Åållaž
• → Spanish: Olavo

• “Olaf” in: J. van der Schaar, “Woordenboek van voornamen”, 8. druk, Utrecht 1994, Prisma Woordenboeken, Uitgeverij Het Spectrum, →ISBN
• Olav; in: Eivind Vågslid, Norderlendske fyrenamn, 1988, →ISBN
• Richard Cleasby; Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874), “Óláfr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press