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Dictionary of Medieval Names
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Thorsten m. Old Icelandic Þórr, the name of the god of thunder, deriving from Proto-Germanic *þunraz 'thunder' + Old Icelandic steinn 'stone', from Proto-Norse ᛊᛏᚨᛁᚾᚨᛉ (stainaz), from Proto-Germanic *stainaz.

England
Latin
● c1132 Turstinus (nom) MemStMF II-I; 1189 Turstanus (nom) GASurv p. 106, Turstini (gen) ibid. p. 208, Turstino (dat) ibid. p. 96, Turstinus (nom) ibid. p. 78
Early Modern English
● 1577 Thurstan StAnthonlin p. 25
Estonia
Middle Low German
◑ 1592 Twyste Tiik1977 p. 288
France
Latin
● 1015 Turstingi (gen) NTDip-vol4 p. 225; 1180 Tustino (abl) RotScaNor p. 2
Old French
● 1313 Toutain Paris1313 p. 105
Ireland
Latin
● fin12thC Torsten (nom) MunDocIr III, p. 6, Turstein (gen) ibid. III, p. 9, Turstin (nom) ibid. III, p. 8, Turstini (gen) ibid. III, p. 21, Turstinus (nom) ibid. III, p. 19
Scotland
Latin
● 1122 Thurstini (gen) ESC XLV, Thurstino (dat) ibid. XLIV, Turstini (gen) ibid. XLIII
Sweden
Latin
● 1350 Thorstani (gen) SDHK no. 6021, Thorstanus (nom) ibid. no. 6002, Thorstens (gen) ibid. no. 6023
Old Swedish
● 1383 Thorstanus SRA-vol2 no. 1932, Thorsten ibid. no. 1945
Cite as: R. Le Get, S.L. Uckelman. "Thorsten". In S.L. Uckelman, ed. The Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources, Edition 2015, no. 3. http://dmnes.org/2015/3/name/Thorsten.