Talk:Germanic name

Untitled
needs cleanup -- at present, Anglo-Saxon and Common Germanic forms are jumbled together. --dab (𒁳) 18:04, 28 August 2007 (UTC)


 * 15 years later- any effort? 2601:1C2:4E00:2100:C9B6:951D:E121:B1ED (talk) 11:06, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Perhaps it would be appropriate to create a table with equivalent Anglo-Saxon/German/Frankish/etc forms Deaþe gecweald 16:43, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * yes. I think we need to collect a fair amount of material first, and then decide on how to best present it in tabular form. dab (𒁳) 12:02, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Could possibly be sorted by origin, though, such as religious Thor-, -dis etc. and other, sych as -björn. 惑乱 分からん * \)/ (\ (&lt; \) (2 /) /)/ * (talk) 22:11, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * this won't work, because there isn't anything like a strict boundary between religious and non-religious sememes. --dab (𒁳) 15:20, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

I don't think that "Germanic name" is an appropriate title for this. "Germanic" would seem to apply to names used throughout the Germanic language families, including contemporary English, German, Dutch, etc. If I'm not mistaken these are all from Medieval languages. 02:30, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

towards completeness
It's time to begin collecting name elements in a systematic manner. Fortunately, we have this now, even with OCR, so it's really just a matter of working through the material. The full list of names extends to 700 pages, so we won't be able to complete this anytime soon. The article should aim at collecting all full list of elements, stating for each if it occurs initially, finally or both. --dab (𒁳) 15:20, 23 October 2009 (UTC)


 * My surname is derived from the village of "Zinzow" in Pommern. elements "Zin", "Zinz" and suffix "-ow" are common but not listed here.
 * I have sent emails over the years to the village government without reply.
 * While stationed in Germany during the Cold War separation, I discovered 17 families with that surname distributed in West Germany; and I imagine there were more behind the walls. eppurse@outlook.com 2601:1C2:4E00:2100:C9B6:951D:E121:B1ED (talk) 11:14, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

ab, af, av, eb, ep; goth. aba "vir"; [1] abar, avar, aver; goth abrs "validus"; act, eht, oht adra [1] ag, agi, egi, ac, ec, ek agil, aegil, egil agin, egin agir, agri, agr agis, egis, ais, eis; goth agis "phobos" ain ala; goth. alls "omnis" alah; ahd. alah "templum" ald; goth. alds "vetus" alf, alb ali ale ele eil alian ellan; goth. aljan "strength" alis als elis helis amal [1] aman emin amat ambr an and andar ang angan angil, ingil, engel, engil ans as os anst ant ara arin; "aquila" arb, erb "hereditas" arg asc ast ath athal, adal, edel athan aud, od, uot, ead "wealth" aug aul aun aus / aust aur, austar, ost, austro aw, av, ouw, auw az, ez
 * A

Ælfwaru
Ælfwaru from Ælf- and -waru (singular; -wara plural)
 * Ælf—Elf or magical being
 * waru—guardian of (a particular place) by profession

Reference: --Senra (talk) 21:39, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Cut from article
The article needs cleanup anyway, but so far these elements are unsubstantiated and need examples: --dab (𒁳) 08:36, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * ceol - keel, ship
 * eald - old
 * earn - eagle/erne
 * fri - free
 * gold - gold
 * heah - illustrious
 * hreþ - victory
 * iaru - prepared
 * raþ - clever
 * sax - sword
 * beorn - bear, warrior
 * hun - young bear
 * lid - gentle
 * swinþ - strength
 * walh - foreign
 * waru (singular; wara plural) - guardian of (a particular place) by profession

Trying to make the article more comprehensive, but the topic is vast. Förstemann alone has probably more than 50,000 unique entries, and these are just the names from medieval Germany, and many of them do not have a clear etymology at all. Perhaps the article should focus on dithematic names with unambiguous etymologies. Even these will be in the thousands, many thousands if spelling variants are to be taken into account. So far this article isn't really going anywhere, being as it is just a random selection. --dab (𒁳) 09:06, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Laf
As examples on the element Laf I belive Lefir/Leif and Elof/Elef should be added

Joeldaalv (talk) 16:36, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Abbreviations f. and a.
The abbreviations f. and a. are not explained in the article, nor are they standard in Wikipedia. Equally important for me, I don't know what they mean in this context. I suggest either using the full words or at least providing a key. Thanks, SchreiberBike talk 19:30, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

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Table in the Italian version of the article
Please look at the table in the Italian version of the articl. It is better structured than the English one, dividing the examples between those who have the element as a prefix and those have it as a suffix.--31.27.178.112 (talk) 15:33, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

The entire article is also better written and better sourced. I think that it should be translated.--31.27.178.112 (talk) 15:35, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

article title
Should it be Germanic names or Germanic personal names?--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 11:40, 1 April 2020 (UTC)


 * THis is a good point - should certainly be personal names Faust.TSFL (talk) 17:15, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Etymology of Elfriede
What could be the etymology of the name Elfriede? --Apisite (talk) 07:46, 21 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Hello User:Apisite. My first guess would be elf beautiful, but I'd need a little more info to be sure, specifically time and place. Edit: it looks to be late English. Burgundaz (talk) 14:43, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

Element section
What say we simplify the element section by giving the Proto-Germanic form of the element itself, for instance, in the first line, all three variants would simply be given as *aht-, it would be the various daughter languages where the differentiation occurs. Of course, I'd be happy to do it, as long as no one has any objections. I'll wait a while, just in case. Burgundaz (talk) 14:40, 11 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Yes. —Tamfang (talk) 02:11, 14 May 2023 (UTC)