#amelinc

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We calling them Amelinc or something else?

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Amelinc

Amelinc is an Anglo-Saxon masculine name composed of amal (work) and -ing (one possessed of the quality of), cognate with German Amalung and Norse O̧mlungr.

Reference:

Amelinc [Jeffrey North 1980 English Hammered Coinage, volume 1, 2nd edition, page 104].

Stem (cognate with):

amals = active, brave [Gerhard Köbler 1989 Gotisches Wörterbuch, 1st edition, page 36].

Suffix:

-ing = a suffix forming derivative masculine substantives, with the sense of ‘one belonging to’ or ‘of the kind of’, hence ‘one possessed of the quality of’ [Sir James Murray 1901 A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 1st edition, 5 (I, J, K): 282].

Usage:

Amelinc is the reported mark of a moneyer working under King Eadmund I (the Magnificient) [Jeffrey North 1980 English Hammered Coinage, volume 1, 2nd edition, page 104].

The form Amuling is a byname attributed in an Anglo-Saxon source to the Gothic King Theodoric: “Ða þa lare ongeat Ðeodric Amuling and þone þegn oferfeng, hæht fæstlice folc-gesiðas healdon þone here-rinc” (“Then Theoderic the Amuling heard about the request and seized the officer; he commanded the lords of the people to hold that warrior firmly”) [Malcolm Godden & Susan Irvine 2009 The Old English Boethius 2: 8-9].