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Snotta

Discussion of the name

Snotta is a normalizing of the Exon (397a1) form Estnota and is probably an Old English masculine name related to the name Snot, perhaps from an OE word *snot ‘nose, snout’ (von Feilitzen 1937: 368). Although it is not otherwise recorded from pre-Conquest England, Exon forms are generally more reliable than those of DB and Snotta is therefore the head-form adopted here. If the DB form Snode is the more accurate spelling, however, then a name related to or derived from OE snōd ‘hood, head-dress’ is possible (Redin 1919: 130). This too is not otherwise recorded from pre-Conquest England; but the possibly related name Snodd(a) occurs in place-names in Berkshire, Kent, Wiltshire and Worcestershire (S 280; S 597; S 786; Gover et al. 1939: 282; Watts 2004: 557).

The only entry in the PASE corpus is for Snotta 1, a catch-all category for occurrences of this name in DB.

Bibliography

Gover et al. 1939: J. E. B. Gover, A. Mawer and F. M. Stenton, The Place-Names of Wiltshire (Cambridge, 1939), p. 282.

Redin 1919: M. Redin, Studies on Uncompounded Personal Names in Old English (Uppsala, 1919)

S: P. H. Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters: An Annotated List and Bibliography, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks 8 (London, 1968), revised by S. Kelly, R. Rushforth et al., The Electronic Sawyer: Online Catalogue of Anglo-Saxon Charters, published online through Kemble: The Anglo-Saxon Charters Website, currently at http://www.esawyer.org.uk/about/index.html

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

Watts: V. Watts, ed., The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names (Cambridge, 2004)

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Snode

Spellings in Exon: Estnota

Forms in modern scholarship:

   von Feilitzen head forms: Snot(t)a

  Phillimore edition: Snotta

  Alecto edition: Snotta

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 Devon	Phil. ref. 25,26	Vill Lupridge	DB Spelling Snode	Holder 1066 Snotta 'of Lupridge'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Goscelm of Exeter	1086 Subtenant Baldwin the sheriff	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 0.35	1086 Value 0.35	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Snotta 2 - Snotta ‘of Lupridge’ (Devon), fl. 1066