Regular Patronymics Like a Answer of Far Past
We go on with our publication of a research regarding the origin of European names widely used today. Next part is related to names that arrived from far-away past.
• Ancient Continental Germanic: Several very familiar names, such as William, Robert, Richard, Roger, Geoffrey, Guy, Hugh, and Matilda – every of which have settled cognates in German, Dutch, French, and other linguas – originated in Germanic pre-era. It is possible to utilize Polish translation to find more. They reached English by a shaded route. The official language of the court of the Merovingian and Carolingian France (5th – 9th centuries) was Latin, but their vernacular language was a Germanic variation, and their personal names were predominantly of Germanic origin. These Frankish personal names became set-up in medieval France and in due time were accepted by the Vikings who lived in Normandy in the 9th century. After the Norman occupation of England in 1066, these given names were taken to England, where they noticeably pushed out usual Anglo-Saxon personal names like Ethelred and Athelthryth. A very insignificant Anglo-Saxon given names preserved, for example Edward, which was borne by King Edward the Confessor (c. 1002–1066; ruled 1042–1066), the offspring of an Anglo-Saxon man and a Viking mother, who was revered by Anglo-Saxons and Vikings alike. A quite different situation is that of Alfred, an British name that disappeared from use because of the Vikings, but was restored in the 19th century in commemoration of the great 9th-century king of Wessex.
• Old Norse: Ancient Norse is, certainly, a Germanic language, but its naming tradition is rather different from that of continental Germanic, and many traditional Norse forenames are still used in Scandinavia nowadays, for example Olaf, Harald, Hakon. There has been much brought from German (e.g., Helga, Ingeborg). Several Nordic names such as Ingrid have been adopted much more widely. Many looked for linguistic services into Slavic. In the latter situation, the film star Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982) was a strong influence.
• Ancient Slavic linguas: Names that are Wojciech (Vojteˇch), BogusLaw (Bohuslav), and StanisLaw (Stanislav) are hardly known in the English-speaking environment except within Slavic immigrants, however demonstrate a vital and flowing Slavic tradition, with traces in various Slavic linguas. A lot of such names are pre-Christian, whereas others have been sanctified by use as a saint’s name. Except where a saint has been participating, these names are not widely used in Russia, because there the Orthodox Church has strongly stood for using names associated with Christian saints, such as Fyodor (Theodore) and Dmitri. These are mostly of Greek etymology. Among the Western Slavs (Poles, Czechs, Slovaks) and Southern Slavs (Serbs, Croatians, Slovenians, Bulgarians, etc.), each linguistic county of Slavic natives has its own characteristic set of traditional personal names, majority of which are of Slavic etymology.