Re: [tied] Is Lars a Etruscan name?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
wrote:

> At 11:07:13 PM on Monday, May 5, 2003, João Simões Lopes
> Filho wrote:
>
> > I've read in a newspaper about Scandinavian name Lars
> > being of Etruscan origin. Is it true?
>
> It's from Latin <Laurentius>. The medieval Norwegian form
> was <Lafranz> and the like. In the 14th century <Lauri(t)s>
> and then <Lasse> came into use, and in the second half of
> the 15th century <Lars>. <Laurentius> is ethnic in origin,
> 'man of Laurentum'.
>
> Brian

'Lasse' is the regular diminutive of 'Lars' in Swedish (type Robert >
Bob, William > Bill), so presumably 'Lasse' is younger than 'Lars'.

Torsten