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01 / Meaning & origin
Mechtild is a feminine given name.
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Mechtild— “mighty battle maid”
The _main_ land is, in fact, the chief land, the _main_, the chief sheet of water, or sea, and _might_ and _main_ are so closely connected together, that Maginhild is the most natural step to Mahthild, Main heroine to Might heroine; for _maht_ is really the modern German _macht_, and our own _might_, and both these mighty names were in early use in Germany. Mahthild was the wife of the emperor Henry the Fowler, and afterwards became the sainted abbess of Quedlingburg. Another…
The _main_ land is, in fact, the chief land, the _main_, the chief sheet of water, or sea, and _might_ and _main_ are so closely connected together, that Maginhild is the most natural step to Mahthild, Main heroine to Might heroine; for _maht_ is really the modern German _macht_, and our own _might_, and both these mighty names were in early use in Germany. Mahthild was the wife of the emperor Henry the Fowler, and afterwards became the sainted abbess of Quedlingburg. Another Swabian Mechtild was canonized after being abbess of Adilstetten; and so fashionable did the name become, that all the French maidens, who were not Alix, seem to have been Mahthild; and in Italy it was borne by the Countess Matilda, the friend of Gregory VII., whose bequest was one of the pope’s first steps to the temporal power, and who is introduced by Dante in the flowery fields of Paradise. The Flemings call it Mahault, and thus term the lady, who, as the wife of William the Conqueror, brought it to England.…
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter VI (Descriptive Names), Section VI (Power) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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