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This category is for given names from England (natively, or by historical modification of Biblical, etc., names). See also Category:English-language given names , for all those commonly used in the modern English language , regardless of origin.
Ælfwine (also Aelfwine, Elfwine) is an Old English personal name. It is composed of the elements ælf "elf" and wine "friend", continuing a hypothetical Common Germanic given name *albi-winiz which is also continued in Old High German and Lombardic as Albewin, Alpwin, Albuin, Alboin. Old Norse forms of the name are Alfvin and Ǫlfun.
A personal name, full name or prosoponym (from Ancient Greek prósōpon – person, and onoma –name) [1] is the set of names by which an individual person or animal is known. When taken together as a word-group , they all relate to that one individual. [ 2 ]
Old English: Dewey Decimal: ... Old English given names (1 C, ... Template:Old English personal pronouns (table) Ormulum; P. Old English phonology;
In the north and east, there are many place-names of Norse origin; similarly, these contain many personal names. In general, the Old English and Norse place-names tend to be rather mundane in origin, the most common types being [personal name + settlement/farm/place] or [type of farm + farm/settlement]; most names ending in wich, ton, ham, by ...
Arguing that -lin was a diminutive suffix for names more widely in Old English, John Insley argued in 2019 that Ceawlin is a diminutive of Ceawa, but did not offer an etymology for that name. [6] Unbeknownst to Insley, however, Ceawa had been etymologised by Gillis Kristensson as an Old English counterpart of Middle High German kouwe 'jaw ...
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