#deorling

[femmeprince]

Found an adorable photo of me and @plain-dealing-villain from Ozy's wedding. (Thanks to @drethelin for taking better photos of me and my partners than I could ever hope to. Element of surprise helps I suppose.)

[anglosaxonpersonalnames]

Deorling

Deorling is an Anglo-Saxon masculine name and byname meaning: darling.

Variants:

Derlinc [Rogers Ruding 1817 Annals of the coinage of Britain and its dependencies, 1st edition, 1: 318].

Dirling [John Kemble 1849 The Saxons in England, 1st edition, 1: 502].

Ælmær deorlingc [John Earle 1865 Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel, 1st edition, page 156].

Ælmær dyrling [John Earle 1865 Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel, 1st edition, page 156].

Deorling [William Searle 1897 Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum, page 165].

Ælmær darling [Edward Gomme 1909 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, page 125].

Dīerling [Percy Reaney 1958 A Dictionary of Surnames, 1st edition, page 89].

Dȳrling [Percy Reaney 1958 A Dictionary of Surnames, 1st edition, page 89].

Dēorling [Percy Reaney 1958 A Dictionary of Surnames, 1st edition, page 89].

Stem:

deor = dear [Sharon Turner 1836 The History of the Anglo-Saxons from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest, 6th edition, 2: 490].

Suffix:

“In OE., -ling added to ns. forms ns. with the general sense ‘a person or thing belonging to or concerned with (what is denoted by the primary n.), as hýrling hireling, ierðling ploughman (f. ier ploughing), ræpling prisoner (f. ráp rope). The derivatives from adjs. have the sense ‘a person or thing that has the quality denoted by the adj.’, e. g. déorling darling, efenling an equal, feorðling quarter, farthing, ᵹeongling youngling, ᵹesibling, sibling kinsman; similarly from an adv., underling subordinate. One or two names of birds have this suffix in OE., as swertling ? some black bird (? f. sweart black), stærling starling; here it may possibly have a diminutive force” [Henry Bradley 1908 A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 1st edition, 6 (L): 314].

Definition:

Deorling, deorlingc, derling, diorling, dyrling = A ᴅᴇᴀʀʟɪɴɢ, darling, minion, favourite [Joseph Bosworth 1838 A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language, 1st edition, page 89].

Usage:

The version Dirling appears in a witness list: “Isaac messepreóst, and Bleðcuf messepreóst, and Wunning messepreóst, and Wulfgér messepreóst, and Grifiuð messepreóst, and Noe messepreóst, and Wurðicið messepreóst, and Æilsig diacon, and Maccos, and Teðion Modredis sunu, and Kynilm, and Beórláf, and Dirling, and Gratcant, and Talan” (“Isaac the masspriest, Bleðcuf the masspriest, Wunning the masspriest, Wulfgér the masspriest, Grifiuð the masspriest, Noe the masspriest, Wurðicið the masspriest, and Ælfsige the deacon, and Maccos, and Teðion Modred’s son, and Cynehelm, Beórláf, Dirling, Gratcant and Talan”) [John Kemble 1849 The Saxons in England, 1st edition, 1: 502].

[femmeprince]

@plain-dealing-villain bought me t-shirts. They are very soft. This is the one I am wearing today.

[femmeprince]

Okay it turns out I am way worse at being sappy on the internet than I thought I was. But @plain-dealing-villain and I have been dating for a year and that is really cool and he is really cool and I am infinitely pleased. Happy sort of anniversary, darling.

[femmeprince]

Gahhh, 10 days until Villain!!!!!

[jiskblr]

A More Different Ship Tag

Me an @femmeprince have been dating for just about a year now! And recently, @shitifindon and @nextworldover pointed me at the etymology of ‘darling’

From Middle English derling, from Old English dēorling ‎(“darling, favorite, minion", also "household god”), corresponding to dear +‎ -ling.

Welcome to #deorling land. It’s canon.