Subject: Hmm, I wonder about heid/kin.
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Posted on: 2021-04-14 18:30:02 UTC

Behind the Name pointed me in another direction for the meaning of that element. The postulated proto-Germanic origin of heid is haiduz, and it has several meanings, including "kin" but also including "manner, character, -hood," as BtN suggests. Looking at its Old English descendants suggests the suffix -hād. So, Æþelhād or Æðelhād might be the most Old English version, translated "Nobility" and modernized perhaps to Athelhede. Or, then again, maybe Æþelnes, as Wiktionary says is the Old English word for "Nobility."

... Or just Alice. But any way you slice it, yes, very appropriate indeed!

Anyway, probably not going to pursue the Old English angle for horse names. Rēad + ling would be fine, for example, but I like the Sindarin options better. ^_^

(Just for fun, "Polynikes" translates nicely, too! Poly + nikes = many + victories = lhaew + (tûr + plural) = lhaew + tuir = Lhaewduir or Lhaewthuir. Probably the former, to be less crunchy?)

~Neshomeh

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