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Hunnoth

Discussion of the name

Hunnoth is an otherwise unrecorded Old English masculine name. Although von Feilitzen presumed that it was a curtailed form of the name Hunwine (von Feilitzen 1937: 296), this is unlikely because the forms Hunuđ and Hunuuinus occur in the same source and clearly refer to separate people. Instead, it is more likely that *Hunnoth was a name in its own right, with the first element deriving from either an OE word *hūn cognate with Old Norse húnn ‘bear-cub’ or one linked to the ethnic name of the Huns and the second element being OE nōð ‘bold, daring’ (Insley 2003: 376; contra von Feilitzen 1937: 295).

There are no pre-Domesday occurrences of this name in the PASE corpus.

Bibliography

von Feilitzen 1937: O. von Feilitzen, The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book (Uppsala, 1937)

Insley 2003: J. Insley, ‘Pre-Conquest personal names’, Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 23 (Berlin and New York, 2003)

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book:

Spellings in IE: Hunuð

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Hunuđ

  Phillimore edition: Hunuth

  Alecto edition: -

Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

Holder 1066

Shire	Phil. ref.	Vill	DB Spelling	Holder 1066	Lord 1066	Tenant-in-Chief 1086	1086 Subtenant	Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value	Conf.	Show on Map
Shire Cambridgeshire	Phil. ref. 44,2	Vill Toft	DB Spelling Hunuth	Holder 1066 Hunnoth 'of Toft'	Lord 1066 Wulfric, abbot of Ely	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Erchenger the baker	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.20	1066 Value 0.60	1086 Value 0.40	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Hunnoth 1 - Hunnoth ‘of Toft’ (Cambs.), fl. 1066