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She's mostly right, but makes one common error. -rada in Burgundian Alberada is not the feminine of reda "council, advice" OHG rat, Burgundian reda, later rida, but rather an original feminine rada "raid, riding", part of a broad class of name elements with expeditionary themes (feminine names are frequently martial, if only because martial nouns are frequently feminine). Only later and as "rada" and it's variants drop out of common prosaic use (even raid was reintroduced by Walter Scott, the original English word became road) does it become assimilated to masculine reda.