At 2:15:55 PM on Tuesday, April 1, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:
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> Is Tutta a Germanic name?
It's attested in Sawyer 291, a charter of 'Adeluulf Rex
australium populorum' from 842 CE: one of the witnesses is
<Tutta minister>. (The other names may be seen below, in
case you're interested in the company that it was keeping.)
It looks to me like a pretty standard pet form, similar to
<Totta> for <Torhthelm> (or some other name in <Torht->). I
can't tell you offhand what name might have generated it;
the obvious choice is an Anglo-Scand. <Þursta:n> from
OEScand <Þurste:n>, though this is just a bit on the early
side for that.
S291 witness list:
+ Adeluulf rex .
+ Ceolnod archiepiscopus .
+ Beormod episcopus .
+ Edelstan Rex .
+ Adeluulf dux .
+ Alhere dux .
+ Werehard presbyter .
+ Dryhtnoð presbyter .
+ Adelhun . presbyter .
+ Beormod presbyter .
+ Muhtsar minister .
+ Tutta minister .
+ Ethelmoð .
+ Adelrit .
+ Alhard .
+ Hudda .
+ Edelred .
+ Lulluc .
+ Beasnoð .
By the way, does anyone have any ideas about <Muhtsar>?
Besides the somewhat desperate expedient of taking <ht> as
an error for <th> and making him a pain in the mouth?
Brian