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Notto is a masculine given name.
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Notto— “compelling wolf”
In the same spirit we have _neid_ or _nöt_, meaning violence or compulsion, though it has resulted in the German _neid_, envy, and our _need_, want. We have it in the name of St. Neot, the relative and rebuker of King Alfred in his haughty days, and the hero of a legend of little fishes daily renewed for his food. Also Nidhard was a great chronicler of Frank history, and left a name surviving as Nyddert, in Friesland, and cut into Nitz, in Germany. There, too, were Notburg…
In the same spirit we have _neid_ or _nöt_, meaning violence or compulsion, though it has resulted in the German _neid_, envy, and our _need_, want. We have it in the name of St. Neot, the relative and rebuker of King Alfred in his haughty days, and the hero of a legend of little fishes daily renewed for his food. Also Nidhard was a great chronicler of Frank history, and left a name surviving as Nyddert, in Friesland, and cut into Nitz, in Germany. There, too, were Notburg and Notger, Nidbert in France, and in the North, Notulf, afterwards written Notto. The terminal _nôt_ is, however, more common.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter VI (Descriptive Names), Section IV (War) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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