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Godleof

Godleof is an Anglo-Saxon masculine name composed of god (god) and leof (dear), cognate with German Gottlieb. The same two elements also occur in Leofgod.

Variants:

Godelef [Herbert Grueber 1893 A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Series 2: 199].

Godeleof [Herbert Grueber 1893 A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Series 2: 199].

Godleow [Herbert Grueber 1893 A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Series 2: 199].

Godelað [Herbert Grueber 1893 A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Series 2: 245].

Godleof [Herbert Grueber 1893 A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Series 2: 245].

Godlēof [Percy Reaney 1958 A Dictionary of Surnames, 1st edition, page 141].

Prototheme:

god = god [Ernest Weekley 1939 Jack and Jill, 1st edition, page 29].

Deuterotheme:

leof = dear [Robert Ferguson 1883 Surnames as a Science, page 57].

Usage:

Godleof was the name of a moneyer working at Huntingdon under “✠CNVT R·EX ANG” (Knud II of Denmark): “✠GʘDL·EʘF ʘN HVNT” [Herbert Grueber 1893 A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Series 2: 274, number 250].