Hilda

Originally a short form of names containing the Old Frankish element hildi , Old High German hilt , Old English hild meaning "battle" (Proto-Germanic *hildiz ) [3] [4] [5] . The short form was used for both Old English and continental Germanic names. Saint Hilda (or Hild) of Whitby was a 7th-century English saint and abbess. The name became rare in England during the later Middle Ages, but was revived in the 19th century.

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1. Searle, William George. Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum. Cambridge, 1897, page 297.
2. Förstemann, Ernst. Altdeutsches Namenbuch. Bonn, 1900, page 821.
3. Köbler, Gerhard. Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, entry *hilt, available from https://www.koeblergerhard.de/ahdwbhin.html.
4. Bosworth and Toller. An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1898), page 535, available from http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/texts/oe_bosworthtoller_about.html.
5. Orel, Vladimir. A Handbook of Germanic Etymology. Brill, 2003, page 168.

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