Re: -leben/-lev/-löv and -ung-

Would this be the same as the name Wat as in Wat Tyler
and in the Scots lastnames Watts and Watson? Or are
these nicknames for Walter?


--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> On 2007-12-08 02:11, Brian M. Scott wrote:
>
> >> Are the PNs Hwæssa and Wassa documented?
> >
> > Independently attested as personal names? I'm not
> aware of
> > any such attestations, but there isn't any really
> good OE
> > onomasticon. Watts stars <Hwæssa> but does not
> star
> > <Wassa>, and his sources were much better than
> mine.
>
> They look to me like truncated pet-forms of
> Hwæt-sige and Wa:þ-sige,
> respectively, the first elements meaning 'quick,
> bold' and 'wandering,
> chase, hunting', respectively.
>
> Piotr
>
>

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