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Lutting

Gender: Male

Author: DWP

Editorial Status: 4 of 5

Discussion of the name

Lutting, an Old English masculine name probably originating as an -ing derivative of a simplex or compound name based on OE lytel ‘little’, is the most likely explanation of the DB form Luttinus; less likely is that it represents the Old French name Lutin or, even less likely, an Anglo-Scandinavian formation based on Old Norse Lútr (Redin 1919: 174; von Feilitzen 1937: 322 (contra Forssner 1916: 180); cf. Searle 1897: 342-3; Tengvik 1938: 189-90; von Feilitzen 1976: 164).

The only entries in the PASE corpus are for Lutting 1, the supposed founder of a minster at Soham in the mid-eight century, and Lutting 2, a catch-all for occurrences in DB. It is perhaps notable that all four recorded instances of this extremely rare name occur in East Anglia.

Bibliography

Forssner 1916: Thorvald Forssner, Continental-Germanic Personal Names in England in Old and Middle English Times (Uppsala, 1916)

Redin 1919: Studies on Uncompounded Personal Names in Old English (Uppsala: A.-B. Akademska Bokhandeln, 1919)

Searle 1897: W. G. Searle, Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum: A List of Anglo-Saxon Proper Names from the Time of Beda to that of King John (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1897)

Tengvik 1938: Gösta Tengvik, Old English Bynames, Nomina Germanica 4 (Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksells, 1938)

von Feilitzen 1937: Olof von Feilitzen, The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book, Nomina Germanica 3 (Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksells, 1937)

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Luttinus

Spellings in FBB: Luting, Lutting

Forms in modern scholarship:

von Feilitzen head forms: Lutting

Phillimore edition: Lutting

Alecto edition: Luttin

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 Essex	Phil. ref. 90,68	Vill Colne	DB Spelling Luttinus	Holder 1066 Lutting 'of Colne'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Richard fitzGilbert	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.33	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value