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ArchivesMedieval name Albelinda / Abelinda / Alberinda??
Forever ago I found the name Albelinda on a list of medieval female names. I could have sworn it was on the s-gabriel site but browsed and couldn't find it again. I didn't have much luck on google either, though I did find people with the name. I also found Abelinda and Alberinda, though I'm not sure if they're related. Neither of them returned anything useful.
Has anyone else seen or heard of this name or know anything about it? Help would be much appreciated!
Thanks :)
My PNL = http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/37275
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Has anyone else seen or heard of this name or know anything about it? Help would be much appreciated!
Thanks :)
Top: Henry & Lara (main) / Caspian & Briar (GP) / Leon & Georgiana (top25)
Bottom: Trajan & Jacoba (main) / Dinadan & Melpomene (GP) / Corvo & Ourania (top25)
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Well, I know that is not exactly a fresh post, but I'm wondering if the original author of this question has found something.
Alberinda was my grandma's name. We never knew where it comes from since it is an extremely rare name in Italy. So far, online I can only find very few occurrence of this name. All of them in south of Italy, especially in the area between Puglia and Campania. Since the name has a German sound and south of Italy was ruled by langobards in middleage it will make sense if the name comes from that time.
Please if you have better information you can contact me an namesurname[at]gmail.com (using the name posted here). Otherwise I will periodically visit this website to check for an answer
Alberinda was my grandma's name. We never knew where it comes from since it is an extremely rare name in Italy. So far, online I can only find very few occurrence of this name. All of them in south of Italy, especially in the area between Puglia and Campania. Since the name has a German sound and south of Italy was ruled by langobards in middleage it will make sense if the name comes from that time.
Please if you have better information you can contact me an namesurname[at]gmail.com (using the name posted here). Otherwise I will periodically visit this website to check for an answer
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I'll make a couple of corrections:
1) Albelinda is not a derivatives of Alpelinda, rather the Alp- form is a de-voiced variant, de-voicing of Germanic /b/ to /p/ being common in the Holy Roman Empire (cf. -bert de-voiced to -pert, -brand to -prand etc.)
2) Lind with a meaning "eerpent" is a back-formation from Lindworm and cognate compounds, but the Lind- in these compounds seems to be simply the regular lind/liþe/linnr "flexible, supple, mild" (-worm meaning serpent by itself) and in onomastic use probably the "gentle, mild" sense (these being virtues expected of a lord)
The -rinda form seems to be a spoken/hearing error for -linda (/l/ is frequently misheard/misspoken as /r/)
1) Albelinda is not a derivatives of Alpelinda, rather the Alp- form is a de-voiced variant, de-voicing of Germanic /b/ to /p/ being common in the Holy Roman Empire (cf. -bert de-voiced to -pert, -brand to -prand etc.)
2) Lind with a meaning "eerpent" is a back-formation from Lindworm and cognate compounds, but the Lind- in these compounds seems to be simply the regular lind/liþe/linnr "flexible, supple, mild" (-worm meaning serpent by itself) and in onomastic use probably the "gentle, mild" sense (these being virtues expected of a lord)
The -rinda form seems to be a spoken/hearing error for -linda (/l/ is frequently misheard/misspoken as /r/)
This message was edited 5/3/2021, 10:44 AM
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According to Foerstermann, there was a feminine Germanic name Alflind. He lists various attestations -
Alflint
Aluelint
Alblind
Alpelindis
Alplindis
etc.
- but none matching your spellings precisely. It is made from the elements alf "elf, spirit" and lind "soft, tender".
Alflint
Aluelint
Alblind
Alpelindis
Alplindis
etc.
- but none matching your spellings precisely. It is made from the elements alf "elf, spirit" and lind "soft, tender".
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Sounds like a place to start! I'm wondering if the site I found it on removed it, because it did once show up in google searches. Maybe it was a mistranscription or something in some old census and has just been carried on by a few random folks over the centuries. I can see something like Alpelindis becoming Albelinda.
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