#eadhild

[alienas]

Daughters of the Isles ↳ Eadhild, Duchess of the Franks — daughter of Edward the Elder and his wife, Ælfflæd.

[anglosaxonpersonalnames]

Eadhild

Eadhild is an Anglo-Saxon feminine name composed of ead (wealth) and hild (war), cognate with German Otthild, Norse Auðhildr, Icelandic Auðhildur, and Faroese Eyðhild.

Variants:

Ædild [Stevenson 1841 Joseph Liber Vitæ Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis, page 16].

Ethilda [John Giles 1848 Six Old English Chronicles, page 2].

Eadhild [Henry Riley 1861 The Gentleman’s Magazine and Historical Review 211: 545].

Ēadhild [John Gover, Sir Allen Mawer, & Sir Frank Stenton 1932 English Place-Name Society 9: 683].

Éadhild [Oswin Kinsey 2016 English Compound Names, 2nd edition, page 115].

Note:

Ethilda is a Latinized form.

Prototheme:

wealth = Ead- [Henry Bradley 1888 The Goths, page 369].

Deuterotheme:

hild = war [Robert Ferguson 1883 Surnames as a Science, page 198].

Usage:

Eadhild was the name of a daughter of King Eadweard I (the Elder) [William Searle 1899 Anglo-Saxon Bishops, Kings and Nobles, page 346]: “Eadhild etiam in coniugium mittitur Hugoni filio Hrodbyrhti” [Alistair Campbell 1962 The Chronicle of Æthelweard, page 1]: “Ethilda also was sent to be the wife of Hugh, son of Robert” [John Giles 1848 Six Old English Chronicles, page 2].