Given name
Hereweald
“army”·“ruler, authority”
Hereweald is a masculine given name from Proto-West Germanic, ultimately from Proto-Germanic. It is used in Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Hereweald is built from elements meaning “army” and “ruler, authority”.
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Where it comes from
Hereweald comes from Proto-West Germanic, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-West Germanic *Harjawald, from Proto-Germanic *Harjawaldaz, built from Old English here (“army”) + weald (“ruler, authority”).
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Hereweald’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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