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Ceawlin (name)
''Ceawlin'' (''Ċeawlin'', ; also spelled ''Cælin'') is an Old English personal name. Etymology The etymology of the name is uncertain. A key early attestation comes in Bede's ''Ecclesiastical History of the English People'', where a list of kings who ruled "in regibus gentis Anglorum cunctis australibus" ("in all the southern regions of the people of the English") includes "Caelin rex Occidentalium Saxonum, qui lingua ipsorum Ceaulin uocabatur" ("Caelin king of the West Saxons, who in their language is called Ceaulin", book ii chapter 5).Alaric Hall, 'Interlinguistic Communication in Bede's ''Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum''', in ''Interfaces between Language and Culture in Medieval England: A Festschrift for Matti Kilpiö'', ed. by Alaric Hall, Olga Timofeeva, Ágnes Kiricsi and Bethany Fox, The Northern World, 48 (Leiden: Brill, 2010), pp. 37–80, . This indicates that the West Saxon dialect form of the name was (in the standardised spelling used in Old English schol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old English
Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo-Saxon settlers in the mid-5th century, and the first Old English literature, Old English literary works date from the mid-7th century. After the Norman conquest of 1066, English was replaced, for a time, by Anglo-Norman language, Anglo-Norman (a langues d'oïl, relative of French) as the language of the upper classes. This is regarded as marking the end of the Old English era, since during this period the English language was heavily influenced by Anglo-Norman, developing into a phase known now as Middle English in England and Early Scots in Scotland. Old English developed from a set of Anglo-Frisian languages, Anglo-Frisian or Ingvaeonic dialects originally spoken by Germanic peoples, Germanic tribes traditionally known as the Angles, Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
