Pirsicola T.

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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! 70.172.194.25 06:03, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

Hi

What's your source for all these names? I tried looking one up, Æþelwacer, and didn't find much. There's one book in German that mentions it, and apparently connects it to the attested form Ælwacre. I'm not sure if Æþelwacer is supposed to be some etymological reconstruction of the original form of Ælwacre, or if it's directly attested somewhere. Do you have any other information? 70.172.194.25 06:03, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

I found Æþelwacer on the pase database's domesday section, the specific person was Æthelwacer of Huntspill which was originally spelt in the domesday book as as Eluuacre/Æluuacre. While I found a few names via pase others like Denewulf and Friþestan I found looking through Old English clergy members via Wikipedia. I'll try to start adding reliable sources to the names on their pages, I'm still fairly new to making pages on here. Pirsicola T. (talk) 06:26, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

References and/or quotations would definitely be appreciated, if it's not too much work, and so would the inclusion of a list of attested forms in some way. (In the case of this particular name, there is a pretty noticeable difference between the normalized form and the original form, i.e. the thorn. The Old English editing community seems to be okay with some degree of normalization, though, so that's not necessarily a problem.)

A link to a page like [1] that contains most of the relevant info would go a long way toward making these entries more useful to readers and more easily verifiable. A reference template could be created to facilitate the formatting of such links. Ideally, we could even have a quote or link to the original text in Old English (in this case, the Domesday Book), but that would probably require more effort, especially if some of the sources aren't easily searchable. I still haven't been able to find where exactly this occurs in the DB, but I'm obviously not very familiar with the Old English corpus or how to navigate it. You might know where to look. 70.172.194.25 06:52, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

-flǣd in Old English

Hello Pirsicola T.,

Where did you find that -flæd in Proper nouns as Æðelflǣd to mean beauty, purity?

Thanks Leornendeealdenglisc (talk) 21:01, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

I apologize for my late response I've been pretty busy this past month. I can't remember exactly where I saw it but I remember almost everywhere I saw it referenced mentioned that -flæd meant beauty/purity. The page for German Unflat claims -flæd is a cognate of Unflat which would make sense if -flæd means beauty as Unflat means filth, although I will admit I really should've found a concrete source before I put that in my articles so I'll probably remove that from them until I can find a source for it. Pirsicola T. (talk) 05:13, 1 September 2023 (UTC)