Berhthold
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Old High German
Alternative forms
- Perhtold (Bavarian, 8th C.)
- Perhtholt (Alemannic, 8-9th C. CE)
- Perhtolt (Bavarian, Alemannic, 8th-11th C. CE)
- Perahtolt, Peractolt, Peretolt (Alemannic, 9th C.)
- Perhttolt (Bavarian, 9th C.)
- Perechtolt, Perectholt (Alemannic, 10th C.)
- Pertholt (Bavarian, Alemannic, 10th-11th C.)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *Berhtawald, from *berht (“bright”) + *wald (“might”). Equivalent to berht + walt.[1] Cognate with Old English Beorhtweald.[2] Possible merger with a name containing hold (“loyal, friendly”) as the second element (perhaps compare Old High German Engilhult and Old Saxon Othelhulda), though this identification remains difficult to substantiate with certainty.[3]
Proper noun
Berhthold m
- a male given name
Descendants
- Middle High German: Perihtolt (11th C.), Pertolt, Perhtolth (11th-12th C.), Perhtolt, Pertholt (11th-13th C.), Perhtold (11th-14th C.), Pertolth (12th or 13th C.), Berhtolt (12th-13th C.), Perthold (12th-14th C.)
- German: Berthold
- → Medieval Latin: Berahtoldus (1007 CE), Bertoldus, Bertholdus, Peritholdus (12th C.), Berhtoltus, Berhtoldus, Berehtoldus (12th-13th C.), Pertholdus, Perhtoldus (11th-14th C.), Pertoldus, Perchtoldus (12th-14th C.), Perichtoldus, Berchtoldus (13th-14th C.)
- Renaissance Latin: Bertoldus, Pertoldus, Perchtoldus
References
- ^ Geuenich, Dieter, Ludwig, Uwe, editors (2019), “Lemmatisiertes Personennamenregister”, in Die St. Galler Verbrüderungsbücher (Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Libri memoriales et Necrologia, Nova series; IX) (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 383: “b 125 berht~wald”
- ^ Förstemann, Ernst (1900) “Berchtwald”, in Altdeutsches Namenbuch[1] (in German), 2nd edition, volume I: Personennamen, Bonn: P. Hanstein's Verlag, →OCLC, column 295: “Ags. Beorhtweald. Nhd. Barthold, Bartolt, Bechtold, Berthold.”
- ^ Förstemann, Ernst (1900) “HULTHA”, in Altdeutsches Namenbuch[2] (in German), 2nd edition, volume I: Personennamen, Bonn: P. Hanstein's Verlag, →OCLC, column 927