Waltheri
Old High German
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *Waldahari, from Proto-Germanic *Waldaharjaz, from *waldą (“might, power, authority”) + *harjaz (“army leader, commander, warrior”). Cognate to Old Northern French Waltier and Old English Waldhere.
During the Middle Ages, the name may sometimes have been erroneously or punningly linked to wald (“forest”), for example in the Latin epic Waltharius.[1]
Proper noun
editWaltheri m
- a male given name
Descendants
edit- Middle High German:
- → Latin: Waltharius
References
edit- ^ George T. Gillespie, A Catalogue Of Persons Named In German Heroic Literature (Oxford 1973), pp. 135-137
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