# Bardil

Bardil (plural: Bardila) is a Germanic given name and surname. It is of ancient European origins that evolved from words meaning "axe", “white, bright, brilliant,” "giant," or "beard."
The earliest known man with the name was Bardylis I (born c. 448 BC). Though it is an Illyrian name, the Germanic Bardil is not inherited nor borrowed in the Illyrian language. It may possibly be referenced to the archaeological depiction of axes in Illyrian weaponry and Bardylis and his soldiers, who possibly had a beard.
The Old High German language likely influenced the name Bardil, which derives from the components bart, "beard," and il, throughout Europe. It was commonly learned and borrowed in Balto-Slavic languages as Bardzila, sometimes distorted as Bardila, Bordilo, and Borzilo. This rendition was originally in Lithuanian, and later in Belarusian, Latin, Polish, Ukrainian, and Russian; thus, Bardzila is considered an archaic Lithuanian hypocoristic name (nickname) but of Germanic origin. In the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, villages in present-day Belarus and Poland were named after the founder's name whose named Bardila, specifically Ivan Harbuz-Bordzilovskiy, who founded Bardzily in Orsha District, Mogilev Governorate. Most formations of the name are Slavicized based on nobility, specifically the Polish Bordziłowski and Serbian Barzilović.

## Origins
### Ancient words

Bardil was first attested in the Old High German language as “Bardilo" in the 9th century AD. The name derives from Old English "bardouleau" or "bardelle", Old French "bartel", and Old Norse "barðill," by evolution of proto-Germanic "bardaz" (meaning "beard") and "bardō" (meaning "axe").

## Variations
### Other languages

Bardilo > Bardel (later) :
| English | French | Dutch | German | Danish | Norwegian | Swedish | Finnish | Icelandic | Russian | Latvian |
| Bardel | Bardél | Bardel | Bardel | Bardel | Bardel | Bardel | Bardel | Bardel | Бардель | Bordehl |
| Bardal | Bardal | Bardal | Bardal | Bårdel | Bårdel | Bårdel | Bårdel | Bárdel | Bardel | |
| Bardle | Bardele | | Bartel | Bærtel | Bærtel | Bärtel | Bärtel | Bærtel | | |
| | | | Bardil | | | | | | | |

### Other forms

| English | French | Spanish | Italian | Greek | Albanian | Illyrian | Romanian | German | Hungarian | Dutch | Danish | Polish | Lithuanian | Belarusian | Russian | Ukrainian |
| Bard(e, o) | Bardin | Bartolino | Bardella | Βάρδυλις | Bardhyl | Bardylis | Bârzilă | Bardolf | Bardülisz | Bartelzoon | Bærtelsen | Bordziło | Bardzila | Бардзіла | Бордзило | Бордзіло |
| Beard | Bardon | Bordelína | Bardelle | | Bardhyll | Bardyllis | | Bartholf | | | | Bordziłowski | Bardzilauskas | Bardzila | Bordzilo | Bordzilo |
| Bardell | Bardonneau | | | | Bardhill | | | Barding | | | | Bordiło | Barzila | Бардзілоўскі | Бордзиловский | Бордзіловський |
| Barden | Bardouleau | | | | Bardhull | | | Bordelius (Latin) | | | | Bordiłowski | Barzilovičius | Bardziloŭski | Bordzilovskiy | Bordzilovsʹkyy |
| Bardolph | Bardéline | | | | | | | Bartelsohn | | | | Borziło | | Барзіла | Бордило | Борділо |
| Bardon | Bardelais | | | | | | | | | | | Borziłowicz | | Barzila | Bordilo | Bordilo |
| Bardeline | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Барзіловіч | Бордиловский | Борділовський |
| Bardillon | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Barzilovič | Bordilovskiy | Bordilovsʹkyy |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Барзило | Барзіло |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Barzilo | Barzilo |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Барзилович | Барзілович |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Barzilovich | |

## Places

* Bardzily - Village in Belarus; named after Ivan Harbuz-Bordzilovskiy
* Bardzilovo - Village in Belarus; named after an ancestor of Bordziła
* Bordziłówka - Villages in Poland and Belarus; named after an ancestor of Bordziłowski
* Barzilovica - Village in Serbia; named after an ancestor of Barzilović