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Help[Facts] Re: Edrit//Etrit/Atrit (m) (Medieval English name of Anglo-saxon origin)
in reply to a message by (Is-rah-el) Israelle
The name has been somewhat obscured by the Latin scribe who uses Burgundian styling. But the elements seem to be Aud- wealth (OE Ead-) related to a verb Audan- (Eaden-) grant, give; and redaz ( often with umlaut to rad) thought, advice, from a root meaning think, arrange, (put in) order. It's earliest onomastic uses rad may have had indo-Iranian influences in which what is put in order is not ones thoughts but ones estate.
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I should add that the East Germanic -rit (advice) may have been later interpreted as ríd, ríde/rít (rider) by West Germanic readers (a rare alternative to ridda, Ritto occurring as a prefix in some compounds, from *rídijō instead of *riddjō {the latter with inexplicable shortening of the long vowel}), in much the same way as -head (status) and heath get mixed up in the west and north Germanic names.
This message was edited 2/11/2025, 1:51 PM
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