Waltheri

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *Waldahari, from Proto-Germanic *Waldaharjaz, from *waldą (“might, power, authority”) + *harjaz (“army leader, commander, warrior”). Cognate to Old Northern French Waltier and Old English Waldhere.

During the Middle Ages, the name may sometimes have been erroneously or punningly linked to wald (“forest”), for example in the Latin epic Waltharius.[1]

Proper noun

Waltheri m

  1. a male given name

Descendants
  • Middle High German:
  • → Latin: Waltharius

References
  1. George T. Gillespie, A Catalogue Of Persons Named In German Heroic Literature (Oxford 1973), pp. 135-137
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