Nils

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Catalan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Latin asinus (donkey).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Nils m pl (plural only)

  1. a town of the Rosselló (Roussillon) district in Northern Catalonia, now part of the Pyrénées-Orientales department in France. French name: Nyls

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Danish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Swedish Nils. A variant of the more common Danish Niels.

Proper noun

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Nils

  1. a male given name

Estonian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Swedish Nils.

Proper noun

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Nils

  1. a male given name

Faroese

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Proper noun

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Nils m

  1. a male given name

Usage notes

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Patronymics

Declension

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Singular
Indefinite
Nominative Nils
Accusative Nils
Dative Nilsi
Genitive Nils

German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Swedish Nils.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /niːls/
  • Audio:(file)

Proper noun

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Nils

  1. a male given name from Swedish or Norwegian

Latvian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Swedish Nils.

Proper noun

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Nils

  1. a male given name

Norwegian

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Etymology

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Medieval vernacular form of the Latin saint's name Nīcolāus, Nīcholāus, ultimately from Ancient Greek Νικόλαος (Nikólaos). Recorded in Norway since the 11th century. Cognate with English Nicholas.

Proper noun

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Nils

  1. a male given name
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variants:

pet form:

References

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  • Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
  • [1] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 13 799 males with the given name Nils living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 19th century. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.

Swedish

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Etymology

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Medieval vernacular form of the Latin Nīcolāus, ultimately from Ancient Greek Νικόλαος (Nikólaos). First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1455.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Nils c (genitive Nils)

  1. a male given name
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References

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  • Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
  • [2] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 137 988 males with the given name Nils living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1920s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

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