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ALD
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Origin and Meaning
Ancient Germanic
Old Norse
aldr = 'old age' [2]
eldri = 'older' (comparative degree [3]
ǫld (genitive aldar) = 'time', 'age' [4] [5]
Gothic
alds = 'old' [1]
alds = 'age, lifetime' [3]
altheis = 'old' [6]
alþeis = 'old' [3]
Old High German
ald = 'old' [1]
alt = 'old' [1] [7] [3] [5]
Anglo-Saxon
eald = 'old' [6]
eld = 'time', 'age' [5]
yld = 'time', 'age' [5]
Old English
Related Names
See Aldi
Combinations
| Name Element |
Example |
|---|---|
| BORG | see Aldinborg (German) |
| FRID | see Ealdfrith (English) |
| GEIR | see Aldger (German) |
| HER | see Aldar (Norse) |
| ROS | see Aldarrós (Norse) |
| ULF | see AldulfR (Norse) |
| VID | see Aldviðr (Norse) |
| VIN | see Aldwin (German) |
First Element Forms
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
- ↑ Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Ferdinand Holthausen: Gotisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (1934)
- ↑ Geir T. Zoëga: A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic (1910)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson: An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Walter W. Skeat: The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology (1993)
- ↑ Günther Drosdowski: Duden Etymologie - Herkunftswörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (1997)