Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *AnsuwaldazScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_ansuwaldaz
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Nominal compounds in GermanicCharles T.CarrLondonOxford University Press1939The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English, 2)DonRingeAnnTaylorOxfordOxford University Press2014The American heritage dictionary of Indo-European rootsCalvertWatkinsBostonHoughton Mifflin Harcourt2011Altdeutsches Namenbuch. Vol. 1: Personennamen. 2nd completely revised editionErnstFörstemannBonnP. Hanstein1900
propnmasculinea-stema male given nameFrom *ansuz + *waldaz¹, a dithematic theophoric personal name, literally ‘divine ruler’ or ‘ruler associated with a deity’. The reconstruction is supported by continental Germanic Ansovald, Ansuald, Ansoald, Answald Förstemann 1900: 131, Old English Ōsweald, and Old Norse Ásvaldr. Proto-Germanic *ansuz regularly gives Old English ōs- and Old Norse áss-/ós-Ringe & Taylor 2014: 141, while *waldaz¹ is an agentive name element from the root of *waldaną; compare *Harjawaldaz and *alawaldaz ~ alawaldôCarr 1939: 57Watkins 2011: s.v. *wal-.