Sigismund
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- German, Ancient Germanic
Form of SIGMUND in which the first element is sigis, an older form of sigu. Saint Sigismund was a 6th-century king of the Burgundians. This was also the name of kings of Poland and a ruler of the Holy Roman Empire.
 | SIGMUND male German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, English Derived from the Germanic elements sigu "victory" and mund "protector" (or in the case of the Scandinavian cognate, from the Old Norse elements sigr "victory" and mundr "protector"). In Norse mythology this was the name of the hero Sigurd's father, the bearer of the powerful sword Gram. A notable bearer was the Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the creator of the revolutionary theory of psychoanalysis. | |||||||||||||||||||
| EQUIVALENTS |
| ANCIENT GERMANIC: Sigimund, Sigismund |
| ANCIENT SCANDINAVIAN: Sigmundr |
| CZECH: Zikmund |
| DANISH: Sigmund |
| ENGLISH: Sigmund |
| GERMAN: Siegmund, Sigismund, Sigmund |
| HUNGARIAN: Zsigmond |
| NORWEGIAN: Sigmund |
| POLISH: Zygmunt |
| SLOVAK: Žigmund |
| SWEDISH: Sigmund |
| DIMINUTIVES AND SHORT FORMS |
| HUNGARIAN: Zsiga |
| SLOVENE: Žiga |
| SWEDISH: Sigge |