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Re: Ernulphus
by Rene
8/2/2023, 10:46 AM
in reply to a message by Anneza
Some quick googling gave me this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernulf
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- Anneza   +2
8/2/2023, 2:05 PM
Brilliant - so his parents tweaked the spelling to make it more Latin-looking than German! Most interesting - thank you.
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- Kirke   +1
8/2/2023, 8:17 PM
They didn't tweak it. Ernulphus IS the Latin form of the name. It appears this way in Latin language writing about the historical bishop of Rochester Ernulf.
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- thegriffon
8/3/2023, 2:06 AM
Ernulf ís ostensibly ern+wulf (erne "eagle" and wolf), but the first element could also be an n-stem variant of ere- honor.
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