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Acwulf

Acwulf is an Anglo-Saxon masculine name composed of ac (oak) and wulf (wolf).

Variants:

Acolf [Sir Henry Ellis 1833 A General Introduction to Domesday Book 2: 2].

Acolfus [Sir Henry Ellis 1833 A General Introduction to Domesday Book 2: 2].

Aculfus [Sir Henry Ellis 1833 A General Introduction to Domesday Book 2: 2].

Acholf [Joseph Stevenson 1841 Liber Vitae Ecclesiae Dunelmensis, page 16].

Acuulf [Joseph Stevenson 1841 Liber Vitae Ecclesiae Dunelmensis, page 42].

Akulfus [Joseph Stevenson 1841 Liber Vitæ Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis, page 46].

Aculf [John Kemble 1846 Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici 4: 264].

Ācwulf [Henry Sweet 1886 The Oldest English Texts, page 554].

Acwulf [William Searle 1897 Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum, page 2].

Agulf [Olof von Feilitzen & Christopher Blunt 1971 England Before the Conquest, page 187].

Note:

Forms ending with -us are Latinizations.

Prototheme:

Ac, aac = an Oᴀᴋ [William Smith 1873 A Complete Etymology of the English Language, page 70].

Deuterotheme:

Wulf = Wᴏʟꜰ [William Smith 1873 A Complete Etymology of the English Language, page 187].

Usage:

A thegn called Acolf (Acwulf) held land in Suffolk in the time of King Eadweard III (the Confessor): “Teluetteham tenuit Acolf tegnꝰ . ᵱ m͛ . t . r . e . II . car͛ t͛re” Alexander Rumble 1986 Domesday Book 34 (Suffolk): chapter 12, paragraph 1]: “Acwulf, a thegn, held Thelnetham as a manor TRE with 2 carucates of land” [Ann Williams & Geoffrey Martin 2002 Domesday Book 3: 1235].

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