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“Egil, legendary archer” + “bright”
01 / Meaning & origin
Agilbert is a masculine given name documented in German and Latin. English Wiktionary records the meaning ““Egil, legendary archer” + “bright””.
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Meaning: “Egil, legendary archer” + “bright”
Borrowed from Frankish *Agilaberht, from *Agil (“Egil, legendary archer”) + *berht (“bright”). Cognate with Old High German Egilberht, Old English Ægelbeorht.
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Agilbert— “formidably bright”
The dative form of Ag is Agli, whence Egils, or Eigils, has come to be a favourite northern name, and in this shape it is a very frequent prefix. Egilona was the unfortunate wife of Rodrigo, the last of the Goths, and afterwards of the Moorish prince, his conqueror, whom she forced to do homage to the Cross, by having the door of her room opposite to it made so low that he could not enter without stooping. Agilo was a Frank nobleman, and in Domesday we fall upon an undoubted…
The dative form of Ag is Agli, whence Egils, or Eigils, has come to be a favourite northern name, and in this shape it is a very frequent prefix. Egilona was the unfortunate wife of Rodrigo, the last of the Goths, and afterwards of the Moorish prince, his conqueror, whom she forced to do homage to the Cross, by having the door of her room opposite to it made so low that he could not enter without stooping. Agilo was a Frank nobleman, and in Domesday we fall upon an undoubted Agilward and Egelmar, and on what are probably their contractions, Aylward and Aylmer, afterwards Aymar; but both these are contractions of other names, and cannot always be referred to the awful god of the sea. Agilard, Agilulf, and Agilbert were Frank forms, the last Eilbert in German; Egilhart is Eilert, or Eilo, in German; Eilert, Ayelt, or Ayldo, in Frisian. And the Spanish Gothic Egica is another of the progeny of the old sea giant. Oht is a word also meaning terror.[117]
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter II (Names From Teuton Mythology), Section XIII (Œgir) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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