The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-13

sh AEMesihs s1h1 1slhiE1 MhxIH8 olric, the wessex king, and the chron. icier for 7ss calls the Mercian King ceolwuif by the hypccoristic offa, the modified deuterotheme of his name. Similarly q German chronicier of e2o calls Burgundcfaro and his sister Burgundofara, simply Faro and Fara respectively. Tn 72o, Bertrado. con sort of Pekin the Small, is recorded a s Perta. In 743 irminfridus is called Irnnio and in 1o4S Tho. Similarly the Teutonic favorite Irmingarda is fre- auently abbreviated as imma or Emma and some wrongly claim this Koseform as the proper explanation of this per. sonal name in all instances. Boniface in his Epistles. in the eighth century. addresses Eadburga as Bugga. Tn s3S the notary Hirmenmorus is simply ffir. Snei.
 The same hypocoristic form frequent iy represents two or more personal names. Thus in sst sicco is found for sibertus (seigbert). in sss for sifridus (Stegfrted) and an eleventh century chronicler has Sikko for Sienarus feiegmer). So Benno Is found in the eleventh century for both the Patavian Archoishop Berngerus and the Saxon
 The hpyocoristic name sometimes borrows the initial or the final sound of the deuterotheme as an addition to the prototheme. So Foltz is found both for Folprecht and for Folrat. It may possibly represent also any other compound of Folc and q deuterotheme ending in "t." There Is documentary evidence for the two given.
 The importance of a thorough knowledge of these hypocoristic names for the full and proper explanation of many surnames is very great. but thoy have received scant attention from many who have tried to deal with tho name system of the Teutons. They are often so modified that only a study of early documents will give any clue as to their Identification
 The hypocoristic Timo. for example, has been great puzzle. It Is the base of the German surnames Diem. Diehm. Dieme. Thien. Thieme. Thine, Thimmo. Time. Timme, Tinnm and their derivatives and compounds. It is found in place names as Timinhof, Timenhoven. Dienhoven. Timanhus. Timestate. Timansperg. Timendorf Diendorf etc, and in surnames derived from these. e,g. Timeanus from Timanhus). surname of an ex-mayor of Baltimore. Most writers tell us that Timo Is "an old personal name. early documents reveals that 1t is a hypocoristic form of Thiudemar. the fame of the people" This is attested by at least four mediaeval documents in the case of four historical Thiude- mars.
 Dudley.
 This surname ts local and derived from the important town of this name in worcestershire.
 In the 's'resta de Neville" of 1273. the surname 10 entered as de Duddlegh. The Yorkshire poll tax list of 1879 has Doudely; pudely. puddeiy and Dudly.
 The name of the town in Anglo Saxon is puddan.ieah. "the lear or field of Dudda-"
 As the deuterotheme mas oeen ruiiy explained under Lee in No. 1 of this series, 1t remains only to consider the prototheme. Who was pudda? Clearly an early owner of the site. Camden says it was . Saxon prince podc and such Is an old tradition. There was a Dude. Duddns and Dudo are all found podo, Dud, Duda, Dudan. Dudd, Dudda in e4S. Hence, presumably the tradi- tion. Others of the name were resi- dent there before and after that date. Dudda a "pincerna." (cup-besrer or Dudda witnesses document about 7so. One Duda, a land owner. was buried there about 7SS. pudda, Mercian duke, was there about s4S: Dodda, land owner, about 1885: Dodda, an at. tendant upon the bishop. l06s. Several others appear on Mercian records dur. fnK these centuries and there were probably numerous others of the name not on sxtant records. Our Dudda was some of these. but no man at this time can tell which one.
 Doda, Dodd, Dodda, Doddo. Dode. in the Anglo.Saxou period of England and largely within the eonfines of Mercia. On the coutinent we find such variats as Duada, Duado. Duda. Duodo, Toato. Tuata, Tuato, Tuota. etc.
 All these are variant forms of flypocoristic name from Thiudwald. which appears in the Angio-Saxon re- cords as Dodweald. pudweald. Dod" oaldus, Theodwald, Teudoaid, Tedaldus. etc. Numerous other variants are found on continental records. .. :, Thiudwald signifies the "wieldsr of
 Its prototheme appears in the old Saxon thioda. Old High German diota, old Frisian thiade. old Morse thJoth. Anglo Saxon theod. Gothic thiuda all meaning people. nation" With an ad- jective, al sunk this produced the Old Saxon thiudisco--whenee our Dutch and German Deutscb. From the Gothic thiuda or some of it's dialectie forms came the Latinized Teuton.
 This is cognate with the Lithuanian iand,,, Old Irish tuath. people" Gym rio tut people" oscan touta. "State, city, people" Umbrian totar, Marru- cinian touta. Volseian tota, all of the same meaning as the Oscan. Livy re- UortR that the chief mawistratA of tha