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“GERMANIC” + “GERMAN” HAVE DIFFERENT DEFINITIONS)
(at least ‘in english’)
(which is itself a ‘germanic’ language)
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‘german’ refers to a ‘single language’)
(aka ‘the ‘german languauge’)
‘germanic’ refers to a ‘language branch’)
(consisting of multiple distinct ‘languages’)
(at least according to the ‘experts’)
(i’m assuming there are experts’ in this naming exercise)
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*’germanic given names’ are traditionally ‘di-thematic’*
(that is, they are formed from 2 elements, by joining a ‘prefix’ + a ‘suffix’)
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(for example, King Æþelred’s name was derived from…)
æþel,
(for ‘noble’)
ræd,
(for ‘counsel’)
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(however, during an ‘early time” (?) there are records of ‘names’ which seem to be ‘mono[thematic’, consisting only of a single ‘element’)
(these are sometimes explained as ‘hypocorisms’)
(meaning “short forms of originally ‘dithematic’ names”)
(…but in many cases, the ‘etymology’ of the (supposed) ‘original’ name cannot be recovered)
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(the oldest known ‘germanic’ names date to the ‘roman empire’ period)
(such as the german warlord ‘arminius‘)
(’18 BCE’ – ’21 CE’)
(chief of ‘cherusci’ tribe)
(defeated the romans @ ‘battle of teutoburg forest’)
(‘9 CE’)
(~age 27′)
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(his wife’s name (‘thusnelda’ is also considered first (known) ‘germanic name’ application)
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‘the german heroic age’
(‘germanic names’ (especially ‘gothic names’) became more common in the ‘late roman empire’ period (‘300s’ – ‘400s’)
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(a great variety of names are attested from the ‘medieval period’, falling into the rough categories of…)
Scandinavian (‘Old Norse’),
Anglo-Saxon (‘Old English’),
continental (‘Frankish’,
‘Old High German’, and ‘Low German’),
and East Germanic
(see “gothic names”) forms)
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(by the ‘High Middle Ages’, many of these names were abbreviated or corrupted, so that their etymology is not always clear)
(of the large number of medieval ‘Germanic names’, a comparatively small set remains in common use today)
(the most frequent name of Germanic origin in English has traditionally been ‘William’ (‘Bill’; from an Old High German ‘Willahelm’), followed by ‘Robert’ and ‘Charles’ (‘Carl’, after ‘Charlemagne’))
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(very few names of native ‘english’ (‘anglo-saxon’) origin survive into current use, the most common of these being…)
*MALES* –>
‘edward’
‘edmund’
‘edgar’
‘alfred’
‘harold’
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*FOR FEMALES* –>
(the female name audrey continues the ‘anglo-norman’ (aka ‘french’) form of the anglo-saxon “Æðelþryð”)
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*WIKI-LINK*
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