Given name
Wealdhere
“power, authority”·“army”
Wealdhere is a masculine given name from Proto-West Germanic. It is used in Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Wealdhere is built from elements meaning “power, authority” and “army”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-West Germanic *Waldahari, built from Old English weald (“power, authority”) + here (“army”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Wealdhere’s family of names
In Old English usage, Wealdhere shares a linguistic root with the Old High German form Waltheri. In Old English usage, Wealdhere has a related form in Waldere. In Old English usage, Wealdhere has a related form in Waldere.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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