Kunigunde

Bamberg, St. Kunigunde at the Lower Bridge
Bamberg, St. Kunigunde at the Lower Bridge

Kunigunde, Kunigunda, or Cunigunde, is a European female name of German origin. It consists of two Old High German roots kunni ('clan', 'family') + gunda ('fight'). In Polish this is sometimes Kunegunda.

Notable people with such names include:

Fictional or legendary

See also

References

  1. ↑ Unarten. Kleist und das Gesetz der Gattung p. 173
  2. ↑ Hans Ferdinand Massmann, Gedrängtes althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, p. 124
  3. ↑ Jochen Splett [de], Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, p. 332
  4. ↑ The two stems are searchable in the online version of Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch by Gerhard Köbler [de], (6th edition) 2014