[ANSTHRLD] name help please

[Luciana Caterina di Borgese]

It is looking like you have set yourself a hard task on this one. I really
understand the need to be the 'princess in shining armor', though ;)

I did a crawl through some online Old English and Middle
English dictionaries. I also did a search for the etymology of the first
name's elements. This is what I found:


<Ma> - More, Rather, Further
http://beowulf.engl.uky.edu/~kiernan/BT/Ebind/docs/bosworth/hi-res/a0653.jpg

<Hearra> - A Lord, occurs only in poetry
http://beowulf.engl.uky.edu/cgi-bin/Bosworth-Toller/ebind2html3.cgi/bosworth?seq=542

Nothing found for either in middle English.



The etymology of <Ma> dates it to 1823, childish or colloquial shortening of
mamma.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=ma

Nothing etymological is found for <hearra>
I will keep looking. Hopefully, this will prove a springboard for someone
else.

Good luck,
Luciana

On 11/1/06, Hedwig von Luneborg <lochherald at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Have you ever noticed how your consultation work comes in waves?  I've not
> had much to do over the last several months and just the last two days
> I've
> gotten two.  I've already gotten wonderful help for the first one and
> documentation is in process...now for my second one.
> This kind gentle of my barony is a wonderful woman and means a great deal
> to
> me personally so I have a larger than average desire to help her get
> things
> lined out.  Here is ALL of the information I have...
>
> Name desired:
>
> *Mahearra -* *She apparently constructed this name from sources she found
> in
> Hanks and Hodges Dictionary of Surnames.