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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/Hildigardu
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From *hild (“battle”) (from Proto-Germanic *hildiz) + *gard (“enclosure”).
Proper noun
*Hildigardu f
- A female given name, equivalent to English Hildegard
Declension
ō-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *Hildigardu | |
Genitive | *Hildigardā | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *Hildigardu | — |
Accusative | *Hildigardā | — |
Genitive | *Hildigardā | — |
Dative | *Hildigardē | — |
Instrumental | *Hildigardu | — |
Descendants
- Old High German: Hildigard, Hiltigart[1]
- German: Hildegard
- → English: Hildegard
- → Polish: Hildegarda
- → Swedish: Hildegard
- German: Hildegard
- → Faroese: Hildigarð, Hildigerð
- → Old French: Hildegarde
- Middle French: Hildegarde
- French: Hildegarde
- → English: Hildegarde
- Middle French: Hildegarde
- → Spanish: Hildegarda
References
- Altdeutsches Namenbuch, col. 673 (p. 352 of the PDF file)