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Hunnoth
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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 |
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Cambridgeshire | 44,2 | Toft | Hunuth | Hunnoth 'of Toft' | Wulfric, abbot of Ely | Erchenger the baker | - | 0.20 | 0.60 | 0.40 | B | Map |
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