Ellanberht

== Old High German == === Alternative forms === Allianperht, Allanperht (Bavaria, 8th C. CE) Ellanpert, Ellanperht (Bavaria, 8th-9th C. CE) Eillanperht, Ellenperht (Bavaria, 9th C. CE) Ellanpret (Alemannia) === Etymology === By surface analysis, ellan (“zeal”) +‎ berht (“bright”), ultimately derived from Proto-West Germanic *alljan +‎ *berht, only in Upper High German from the 8th C. The first element may also an ōn-stem Proto-West Germanic *alljā. === Proper noun === Ellanberht m a male given name ==== Descendants ==== Middle High German: Ellanpreht (12th C.) → Medieval Latin: Ellinbertus, Ellinpertus (11th C.), Helenbertus (12th/13th C.) === References === Geuenich, Dieter, Ludwig, Uwe, editors (2019), “Lemmatisiertes Personennamenregister”, in Die St. Galler Verbrüderungsbücher (Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Libri memoriales et Necrologia, Nova series; IX) (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 368: “a 161 alian~berht”