Given name
Eðvald
“riches, wealth”
Eðvald is a masculine given name from Proto-Germanic, meaning “riches, wealth.” It is used in Icelandic.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Proto-Germanic *audaz (“riches, wealth”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Eðvald’s family of names
In Icelandic usage, Eðvald shares a linguistic root with the Portuguese form EDVALDO.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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