Ethelthreth Winetiger wrote:
jimmy m wrote:
I was trying to figure out where your name came from. The internet led me here.
Ohh, I'm not familiar with that. It is an old Gaelic name.
It's Old English, not Gaelic. It translates roughly as
well-read or
nobly advised. Literally Aethel (noble, or kingly) + read.
St. Æthelthryth was an Anglo-Saxon queen and saint. Two of her sisters also became saints.
Aethel/Ethel is a common name element in Germanic languages. Read is a pretty common one too, sometimes as reda or reða or reth.
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