*Agilaz

Runic: ᚨᚷᛁᛚᚨᛉ Pronunciation: /ˈɑ.ɣi.lɑz/

proper noun · masculine · a-stem

Meanings

  1. a male given name; Egil
  2. Egil/Egill, the legendary archer of the Wayland/Völundr cycle, brother of Wayland/Völundr and Slagfiðr

Etymology

Probably from *agjō + *-ilaz, with *-ilaz functioning here as a hypocoristic or individualizing suffix. This analysis is semantically attractive for the legendary archer and connects the name with Proto-Indo-European *h₂éḱ-ih₂ ~ *h₂ḱ-yéh₂-s, from *h₂eḱ-. Compare Latin acus, aciēs, Ancient Greek ἀκίς (akís), and Sanskrit अश्रि (aśrí-) (de Vries 1977: 95; Kroonen 2013: 4; Ringe 2017: 146). Another possibility is a derivation from *agaz + *-ilaz, from PIE *h₂egʰ-.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nom.Agilaz–
Acc.Agilą–
Gen.Agilas, Agilis–
Dat.Agilai–
Inst.Agilō–
Voc.Agil–

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Descendants

  • *Agil (Proto-West Germanic)
    • Agilus (Medieval Latin)
    • Aegel (Old Saxon)
  • *Agil (Proto-West Germanic)
    • Æġel, Ægil (Old English)
      • Ayel (Middle English)
        • Eagle, Egley, Ayle, Ale, Ayley, Oiley (English)
  • *Agil (Proto-West Germanic)
    • Agil, Aigil, Eigil, Egil (Old High German)
      • Eigil, Aygel, Aigil, Aigel (Middle High German)
        • Jagel (German)
        • Jogaila (Lithuanian)
  • Egill (Old Norse)
    • Egil (Faroese)
      • Egel (Sami)
    • Egill (Icelandic)
      • Egel (Sami)
    • Egel, Egil, Eiel, Eigil (Norwegian)
      • Egel (Sami)
  • Egill (Old Norse)
    • Eghil (Old Danish)
      • Eigil, Ejgil (Danish)
        • Eikili (Greenlandic)
  • Egill (Old Norse)
    • Æghil (Old Swedish)
      • Egil (Swedish)

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