Given name
Godescealc
“god”·“servant”
Godescealc is a masculine given name from Proto-West Germanic. It is used in Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Godescealc is built from elements meaning “god” and “servant”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-West Germanic *Godaskalk, built from Proto-West Germanic *god (“god”) + *skalk (“servant”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Godescealc’s family of names
In Old English usage, Godescealc shares a linguistic root with the Old High German form Goteskalk.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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