Crossword clues for rolf
rolf
- Give a deep massage to
- Massage therapy pioneer Ida
- Deep massage
- Perform deep-tissue manipulation on
- Perform deep-tissue manipulation
- Massage-therapy pioneer
- Ida for whom a massage therapy is named
- Eponymic physical therapist Ida
- Early Viking leader
- Deeply massage
- Deep-tissue massage pioneer Ida
- Deep-massage technique
- Deep kneading maneuver
- Apply deep-tissue massage
- "The Sound of Music" character who's "17 going on 18"
- Place-kicker Benirschke
- Do body work of a sort
- Massage deeply
- Massage intensely
- Massage, in a way
- Use deep massage on
- Give a good rubdown
- Massage therapeutically
- Liesl's love in "The Sound of Music"
- Norse chieftan who became the first duke of Normandy (860-931)
- Norse chieftain: first duke of Normandy (860-931)
- Man's name
- German playwright Hochhuth
- Perform a muscle massage on
- Deep-massage developer
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
masc. proper name, introduced in England by the Normans, from Old Norse Hrolfr, related to Old High German Hrodulf, literally "wolf of fame" (see Rudolph). Rolfing (1972) as a deep massage technique is named for U.S. physiotherapist Ida P. Rolf (1897-1979), and first attested 1958, as Rolf Technique.
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To apply the Rolfing massage technique to.
Wikipedia
Rolfe is a male given name and a surname. It originates in the Germanic name Hrolf, itself a contraction of Hrodwulf ( Rudolf), a conjunction of the stem words hrod ("renown") + wulf ("wolf"). The Old Norse cognate is Hrólfr. As a name Rolfe is known since 911 when the Viking King Gånge-Rolf (846–932) (Latinized as Rollo) captured Normandy.
The oldest evidence of the use of the name Rolf in Sweden is an inscription from the 11th century on a runestone in Mukilteo, Småland. Rolf is a first name or part of a double name in Sweden, Norway, Germany, Finland and Denmark, and to a lesser extent in Iceland.
In Europe the name Rolfe is most popular in Sweden where, as of December 31, 2012, there were 54,737 people with Rolfe as their first name or part of a double name. At the same time there were 511 people in Sweden with Rolfe as their last name. As a given name, Rolfe reached its peak in popularity in the decade of the 1960s.
The name day for Rolf in both Norway and Sweden is August 27. The Day for Rolf on the Finnish-Swedish calendar is March 6.
An alternate but less common variation of Rolf in Norway is Rolv.
Notable Rolfs or Hrolfs include:
Rolf (died 1919) was an Airedale terrier that was claimed to have been able to perform arithmetic and communicate with humans on an intellectual level.
Usage examples of "rolf".
Apparently, the idea had occurred to Rolf as well, for he moved a step closer, his eyes fixed upon her.
Rolf Boldrewood Preface It is not so easy to write ballads descriptive of the bushland of Australia as on light consideration would appear.
Sappha, and when Rolf telephoned, which he did most nights, she chatted animatedly with him and never once brought up the subject of going home.
THE benefit of the microphone, Rolf reviewed briefly the events since his flight from the city, inventing a few extras to cover the existence of the imaginary army.
Lisa - Marie 4 - Marie 2 - Halten - 2 Rolf - Noch mehr hallen - Salto Lisa - Antreten 150 - Marie 4 - Marie 3 - Antreten 110 - Marie 1 - Genau vor Ihnen - Sie sind dicht bei Kurier.
Colonel Luling appeared with drawn revolver beyond the doorway, Rolf was sitting at the desk with the contents of the bags arranged neatly before him.
Rolf beckoned them toward the stairway, while Luling stopped at the desk to call for a group of helicopters.
Joe Deets had predicted the problem halfway through the party given by the Meadows family in the main lounge of the Manse a week after Rolf Wintergarten had brought his bride into the community, some three years after his childless wife, Angela, had died of electrocution when a sudden southern thunderstorm had draped live wires across her Mustang.
For weeks she had kept from going near Walter Rolf and the small office of the small producer for whom he was reading very small playscripts, lest Walter think she was asking him to help her, but now she threw away her delicacy.
Rolf builds a spliff n ah take a toke, passin it back, avoidin Birrell whae waves it away anywey.
The fans were just another vexatious and slightly mysterious part of life, like wondering why garages sell charcoal briquettes in winter or why Rolf Harris never gets any older.
It showed a 192 THE ODESSA FILE man of about thirty-nine, date of birth June 18, 1925, and the name of Rolf Gunther Kolb.
Reading Rolf, for all three savages spoke in their own language, which she did not know at all.
Presently a succession of windmills came into view and the next half hour or so passed pleasantly enough while Rolf explained their various types and how they worked.
He thought for a moment of ignoring Rolfs obvious expectation, but then decided that he didnt want to appear boorish in Trudis eyes.