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Old Norse roots
/²ɛɪ(ː)ndrə/ · Norwegian Nynorsk
01 / Meaning & origin
Eindride is a masculine given name documented in Norwegian Nynorsk. English Wiktionary traces it to Old Norse Eindriði.
ein (“one; alone”) + -ride (“rider”); from Old Norse Eindriði, from older Einriði, compare einriði (“lone rider”), from ein (“alone”) + -riði (“rider”). Cognate with Icelandic Indriði and Danish Ender.
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04 / Through time
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EINDRIDE— “chief rider”
Thus again is formed the original northern Aginhar, awful warrior, who fell down into Agnar and Agne. Einar, of which there were twenty-two in the _Landnama-bok_, looks very much like another contraction of Aginhar; but analogy is against it; and Professor Munch decides that the first syllable, both of Einar and Eindride, a rather popular old Norsk feminine, is _ein_, one, in the sense of chief or superior; so that Einar would be chief warrior, Eindride, Endride, or Indride,…
Thus again is formed the original northern Aginhar, awful warrior, who fell down into Agnar and Agne. Einar, of which there were twenty-two in the _Landnama-bok_, looks very much like another contraction of Aginhar; but analogy is against it; and Professor Munch decides that the first syllable, both of Einar and Eindride, a rather popular old Norsk feminine, is _ein_, one, in the sense of chief or superior; so that Einar would be chief warrior, Eindride, Endride, or Indride, as it is also used, superior rider.
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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