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needs cleanup -- at present, Anglo-Saxon and Common Germanic forms are jumbled together. --dab (𒁳) 18:04, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

15 years later- any effort? 2601:1C2:4E00:2100:C9B6:951D:E121:B1ED (talk) 11:06, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps it would be appropriate to create a table with equivalent Anglo-Saxon/German/Frankish/etc forms Deaþe gecweald 16:43, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

yes. I think we need to collect a fair amount of material first, and then decide on how to best present it in tabular form. dab (𒁳) 12:02, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Could possibly be sorted by origin, though, such as religious Thor-, -dis etc. and other, sych as -björn. 惑乱分からん * \)/ (\ (< \) (2 /) /)/ * (talk) 22:11, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

this won't work, because there isn't anything like a strict boundary between religious and non-religious sememes. --dab (𒁳) 15:20, 23 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think that "Germanic name" is an appropriate title for this. "Germanic" would seem to apply to names used throughout the Germanic language families, including contemporary English, German, Dutch, etc. If I'm not mistaken these are all from Medieval languages. 02:30, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

towards completeness

It's time to begin collecting name elements in a systematic manner. Fortunately, we have this now, even with OCR, so it's really just a matter of working through the material. The full list of names extends to 700 pages, so we won't be able to complete this anytime soon. The article should aim at collecting all full list of elements, stating for each if it occurs initially, finally or both. --dab (𒁳) 15:20, 23 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

My surname is derived from the village of "Zinzow" in Pommern. elements "Zin", "Zinz" and suffix "-ow" are common but not listed here.

I have sent emails over the years to the village government without reply.

While stationed in Germany during the Cold War separation, I discovered 17 families with that surname distributed in West Germany; and I imagine there were more behind the walls. eppurse@outlook.com 2601:1C2:4E00:2100:C9B6:951D:E121:B1ED (talk) 11:14, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A

ab, af, av, eb, ep; goth. aba "vir"; [1]
abar, avar, aver; goth abrs "validus"; 
act, eht, oht
adra [1]
ag, agi, egi, ac, ec, ek
agil, aegil, egil
agin, egin
agir, agri, agr
agis, egis, ais, eis; goth agis "phobos"
ain 
ala; goth. alls "omnis"
alah; ahd. alah "templum"
ald; goth. alds "vetus"
alf, alb
ali ale ele eil
alian ellan; goth. aljan "strength"
alis als elis helis
amal [1]
aman emin 
amat
ambr
an
and
andar
ang angan
angil, ingil, engel, engil
ans as os
anst
ant
ara arin; "aquila"
arb, erb "hereditas"
arg
asc
ast
ath
athal, adal, edel
athan
aud, od, uot, ead "wealth"
aug
aul 
aun
aus / aust aur, austar, ost, austro 
aw, av, ouw, auw
az, ez

Ælfwaru

Ælfwaru from Ælf- and -waru (singular; -wara plural)

Ælf—Elf or magical being
waru—guardian of (a particular place) by profession

Reference:Oxford English Dictionary:affix Elf- (OE) Ælf- and suffix -ware (OE) -waru, Oxford University Press, 2010 --Senra (talk) 21:39, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Cut from article

The article needs cleanup anyway, but so far these elements are unsubstantiated and need examples:

ceol - keel, ship
eald - old
earn - eagle/erne
fri - free
gold - gold
heah - illustrious
hreþ - victory
iaru - prepared
raþ - clever
sax - sword
beorn - bear, warrior
hun - young bear
lid - gentle
swinþ - strength
walh - foreign
waru (singular; wara plural) - guardian of (a particular place) by profession

--dab (𒁳) 08:36, 12 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Trying to make the article more comprehensive, but the topic is vast. Förstemann alone has probably more than 50,000 unique entries, and these are just the names from medieval Germany, and many of them do not have a clear etymology at all. Perhaps the article should focus on dithematic names with unambiguous etymologies. Even these will be in the thousands, many thousands if spelling variants are to be taken into account. So far this article isn't really going anywhere, being as it is just a random selection. --dab (𒁳) 09:06, 13 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Laf

As examples on the element Laf I belive Lefir/Leif and Elof/Elef should be added

Joeldaalv (talk) 16:36, 8 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Abbreviations f. and a.

The abbreviations f. and a. are not explained in the article, nor are they standard in Wikipedia. Equally important for me, I don't know what they mean in this context. I suggest either using the full words or at least providing a key. Thanks, SchreiberBike talk 19:30, 31 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Table in the Italian version of the article

Please look at the table in the Italian version of the articl. It is better structured than the English one, dividing the examples between those who have the element as a prefix and those have it as a suffix.--31.27.178.112 (talk) 15:33, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The entire article is also better written and better sourced. I think that it should be translated.--31.27.178.112 (talk) 15:35, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

article title

Should it be Germanic names or Germanic personal names?--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 11:40, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

THis is a good point - should certainly be personal names Faust.TSFL (talk) 17:15, 22 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

How about Early Germanic anthroponyms as opposed to ethnonymns and toponymns? Is Germanic used correctly to mean ancient or proto- or do you have to specify that?~~~ Botteville (talk) 02:09, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Etymology of Elfriede

What could be the etymology of the name Elfriede? --Apisite (talk) 07:46, 21 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello User:Apisite. My first guess would be elf beautiful, but I'd need a little more info to be sure, specifically time and place. Edit: it looks to be late English. Burgundaz (talk) 14:43, 11 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Element section

What say we simplify the element section by giving the Proto-Germanic form of the element itself, for instance, in the first line, all three variants would simply be given as *aht-, it would be the various daughter languages where the differentiation occurs. Of course, I'd be happy to do it, as long as no one has any objections. I'll wait a while, just in case. Burgundaz (talk) 14:40, 11 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. —Tamfang (talk) 02:11, 14 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It looks as though you went ahead with that and it is an improvement. Thanks. The references request went on this year. I guess it wasn't sourced enough. I look forward to that referencing by someone if you do not care to do it. You can have footnotes in table notes.~~~ Botteville (talk) 13:32, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Table format suggestion

This table suffers from the standard weakness pointed out in help:table: the notes in the last column get squeezed into a long narrow column introducing too much white space in the other columns. The help prefers that you not set the column width but instead use the last column to reference a set of table notes. I suggest we do that here using Table Note 1, etc. Also, making every column sortable introduces pointless sortability, depending only on what word you start the column entry with, such as possibly "the." I suggest we make only Column 1 or possibly 1 and 2 sortable. Do you have any other suggestions? Shall we go ahead and change it? I think we need to face up to some difficult problems instead of just letting it go for now (and forever).Botteville (talk) 12:07, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]