#leofa

[anglosaxonpersonalnames]

Leofa

Leofa is a short form of an Anglo-Saxon masculine name containing the element leof (dear), and also a byname meaning: one who is loved.

Variants:

Leofa [Rogers Ruding 1817 Annals of the Coinage of Britain and its Dependencies, 1st edition, 1: 281].

Leofus [Walter Birch 1892 Liber Vitae, page 63].

Lefa [Herbert Grueber 1893 A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Series 2: 200].

Leva [Herbert Grueber 1893 A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Series 2: 200].

Leóf(a [Henry Harrison 1907-1918 Surnames of the United Kingdom 1: 284].

Leof(f)a [Mats Redin 1919 Studies on uncompounded personal names in Old English, page 51].

Lēofa [Percy Reaney 1958 A Dictionary of Surnames, 1st edition, page 107].

Lēofeca [Percy Reaney 1958 A Dictionary of Surnames, 1st edition, page 199].

Lēof(a) [Hugh Smith 1961 English Place-Name Society 31: 233].

Note:

Leofus is a Latinized form.

Stem:

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

Suffix:

 — a = termination of pet names, such as Cutha for Cuthwine or Cuthwulf [William Searle 1897 Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum, page 1].

Explanation:

Lēofa = “Dear, Beloved. These names were in part short forms of various cpd names with this first element, in part independent affectionate bynames” [Patrick Hanks & Flavia Hodges 1988 A Dictionary of Surnames, page 319].

Usage:

Leofa was the mark of a moneyer at Lewes under “✠CNV T RECX ɅN” (Knud II of Denmark): “✠LEOFA ON LÆPEE∵” [Herbert Grueber 1893 A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Series 2: 275 (number 259)].

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Léofa: Gárulf

“We were pretty close when we were small, but then his family fell on hard times and…that didn’t suit Father at all. Next time I saw him after that, he saved my life on the field. He’s never always been accepting of my main source of income, but equally, I just don’t think he cares. One good thing about always being…out of the action, is that I’ve never seen the horrors that he’s seen: it’s changed him – it’s a different man that looks back at me now, compared with 30 years ago.”

[greatestlivingsellsword]

Léofa: Léofwine

“On the one hand, on some days—most days—I’d love nothing more than to wrap my hands around his neck and finish him for good: he brought my Erica down, and has brought the pair of us down ever since. On the other hand, it’s my Erica that keeps him alive anyway: lovely though she is, she’s one of those mothers, who can’t see how much he hates her, hates both of us, and still thinks he’s her precious little boy. Little does she know, he’s even worse than I was. He’ll end up dead in a ditch before he’s 18, for trying to seduce the wrong guard, or the right member of the landed gentry.

“And you know what the hardest thing is? I’m not even sure I care.”

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Léofa/Léofwine: Education

Both father and son are illiterate, with no real skills except in the field of potion-making, in which they excel at making aphrodisiacs.