Alfred
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English Alfred, from Old English Ælfrǣd, from ælf (“elf”) + rǣd (“counsel”). Doublet of Alfredo and Avery.
The modern pronunciation with /f/ is a spelling pronunciation; the name in Old English was pronounced with [v], as shown in its Middle English descendant Alured (in which u stands for modern v).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Alfred
- (individuals) Alfred the Great, early king of England.
- Alternative form: Ælfred
- A male given name from Old English.
- 1980, Graham Greene, Doctor Fisher of Geneva, or the Bomb Party (fiction), →OCLC:
- Unfortunately for me my father had combined diplomacy with a study of Anglo-Saxon history and, of course with my mother's consent, he gave me the name of Alfred, one of his heroes ( I believe she had boggled at Aelfred ). This Christian name, for some inexplicable reason, had become corrupted in the eyes of our middle-class world; it belonged exclusively now to the working class and was usually abbreviated to Alf. Perhaps that was why Doctor Fisher, the inventor of Dentophil Bouquet, never called me anything but Jones, even after I married his daughter.
- 1998, Steven Herrick, A Place Like This (fiction), University of Queensland Press, →ISBN, page 86:
- You give a kid a name like Cameron / or Alfred, or something like that, / and they end up wearing glasses / and looking at computers for the rest of their life.
- (rare) A surname originating as a patronymic.
- A town, the county seat of York County, Maine, United States.
- A town in Allegany County, New York, United States.
- A community of Alfred and Plantagenet township, Ontario, Canada.
Derived terms
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References
[edit]- ^ Hall, Joseph Sargent (1942 March 2) “3. The Consonants”, in The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4), New York: King's Crown Press, , →ISBN, § 7, page 98.
Further reading
[edit]Alfred (name) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Alfred the Great on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Alfred, Maine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Alfred, New York on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
[edit]Azerbaijani
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Alfred
- A transliteration of the English male given name Alfred.
- 2004, Şəkərəliyev, A. Ş., Əliyev, Ş.T., Cavadov M. Ə., editors, Nobel Mükafatı almış iqtisadçılar və onların nəzəriyyələri[1], Baku: Elm, page 5:
- Alfred Nobel 21 oktyabr 1833-cü ildə İsveçdə anadan olmuş, 8 yaşı olarkən atası Emmanuil Nobelin çalışdığı Sankt-Peterburqa köçmüşdür.
- Alfred Nobel was born in Sweden on October 21, 1833, and at the age of eight, moved to St. Petersburg, where his father, Emmanuel Nobel, was working.
- 2006, Gylman Ilkin, Bakı və Bakılılar, page 149:
- Bu şirkətin müəssisləri üç qardaş: Lüdoviq, Robert, Alfred və bir də onların yaxın dostu […]
- The founders of this company were three brothers: Ludvig, Robert, Alfred and one of their close friends […]
- 2019, Manaf Süleymanov, Eşitdiklərim, oxuduqlarım, gördüklərim, page 185:
- Arvadı və iki oğlu Alfred və Elmar ilə Peterburqdan vətənə qayıdır […]
- He returned home from St. Petersburg with his wife and two sons, Alfred and Elmar […]
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English Alfred, from Old English Ælfræd.
Proper noun
[edit]Alfred
- a male given name
References
[edit]- [2] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 21 194 males with the given name Alfred have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1900s decade. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Alfred m
- a male given name
Faroese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately, from Old English Ælfræd.
Proper noun
[edit]Alfred m
- a male given name
Usage notes
[edit]Patronymics:
- son of Alfred: Alfredsson
- daughter of Alfred: Alfredsdóttir
Declension
[edit]Singular | |
Indefinite | |
Nominative | Alfred |
Accusative | Alfred |
Dative | Alfredi |
Genitive | Alfreds |
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English Alfred, from Old English Ælfræd, possibly through Swedish Alfred.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Alfred
- a male given name
- Alfred Nussi
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Alfred (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Alfred | Alfredit | |
genitive | Alfredin | Alfredien | |
partitive | Alfredia | Alfredeja | |
illative | Alfrediin | Alfredeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Alfred | Alfredit | |
accusative | nom. | Alfred | Alfredit |
gen. | Alfredin | ||
genitive | Alfredin | Alfredien | |
partitive | Alfredia | Alfredeja | |
inessive | Alfredissa | Alfredeissa | |
elative | Alfredista | Alfredeista | |
illative | Alfrediin | Alfredeihin | |
adessive | Alfredilla | Alfredeilla | |
ablative | Alfredilta | Alfredeilta | |
allative | Alfredille | Alfredeille | |
essive | Alfredina | Alfredeina | |
translative | Alfrediksi | Alfredeiksi | |
abessive | Alfreditta | Alfredeitta | |
instructive | — | Alfredein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics
[edit]- Alfred is the 513th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 389 male individuals (and as a middle name to 2,583 more, making it much more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English Alfred, from Old English Ælfræd.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Alfred m
- a male given name
- 1862, Victor Hugo, chapter 2, in Les Misérables, Tome I : Fantine, book 4; republished as Isabel F. Hapgood, transl., 1887:
- Il n’est pas rare aujourd’hui que le garçon bouvier se nomme Arthur, Alfred ou Alphonse, et que le vicomte — s’il y a encore des vicomtes — se nomme Thomas, Pierre ou Jacques. Ce déplacement qui met le nom « élégant » sur le plébéien et le nom campagnard sur l’aristocrate n’est autre chose qu’un remous d’égalité. L’irrésistible pénétration du souffle nouveau est là comme en tout.
- It is not rare for the neatherd's boy nowadays to bear the name of Arthur, Alfred, or Alphonse, and for the vicomte--if there are still any vicomtes--to be called Thomas, Pierre, or Jacques. This displacement, which places the "elegant" name on the plebeian and the rustic name on the aristocrat, is nothing else than an eddy of equality. The irresistible penetration of the new inspiration is there as everywhere else.
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English Alfred, from Old English Ælfræd.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Alfred
- a male given name, popular in the 19th century
Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately, from Old English Ælfræd.
Proper noun
[edit]Alfred m
- a male given name, equivalent to English Alfred
Norwegian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English Alfred, from Old English Ælfræd.
Proper noun
[edit]Alfred
- a male given name
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English Alfred, from Old English Ælfræd.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Alfred m pers
- a male given name, equivalent to English Alfred
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Alfred in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English Alfred, from Old English Ælfræd. First recorded as a Swedish given name in 1751.
Proper noun
[edit]Alfred c (genitive Alfreds)
- a male given name, fashionable in the 19th century
Anagrams
[edit]- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English doublets
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English given names
- English male given names
- English male given names from Old English
- English terms with quotations
- English terms with rare senses
- English surnames
- English surnames from patronymics
- en:Towns in Maine, USA
- en:Towns in the United States
- en:County seats of Maine, USA
- en:Places in Maine, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- en:Towns in New York, USA
- en:Places in New York, USA
- en:Villages in Ontario
- en:Villages in Canada
- en:Places in Ontario
- en:Places in Canada
- en:Individuals
- Azerbaijani lemmas
- Azerbaijani proper nouns
- Azerbaijani renderings of English male given names
- Azerbaijani terms derived from English
- Azerbaijani terms borrowed from English
- Azerbaijani terms with quotations
- Danish terms borrowed from English
- Danish terms derived from English
- Danish terms derived from Old English
- Danish lemmas
- Danish proper nouns
- Danish given names
- Danish male given names
- Dutch terms borrowed from English
- Dutch terms derived from English
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch proper nouns
- Dutch masculine nouns
- Dutch given names
- Dutch male given names
- Faroese terms derived from Old English
- Faroese lemmas
- Faroese proper nouns
- Faroese masculine nouns
- Faroese given names
- Faroese male given names
- Finnish terms borrowed from English
- Finnish terms derived from English
- Finnish terms derived from Old English
- Finnish terms derived from Swedish
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑlfred
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑlfred/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish male given names
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- French terms derived from English
- French terms derived from Old English
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French proper nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French given names
- French male given names
- French terms with quotations
- German terms borrowed from English
- German terms derived from English
- German terms derived from Old English
- German 2-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German terms with audio links
- German lemmas
- German proper nouns
- German given names
- German male given names
- Norman terms derived from Old English
- Norman lemmas
- Norman proper nouns
- Norman masculine nouns
- Norman given names
- Norman male given names
- Norwegian terms borrowed from English
- Norwegian terms derived from English
- Norwegian terms derived from Old English
- Norwegian lemmas
- Norwegian proper nouns
- Norwegian given names
- Norwegian male given names
- Polish terms borrowed from English
- Polish terms derived from English
- Polish terms derived from Old English
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Polish/alfrɛt
- Rhymes:Polish/alfrɛt/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish proper nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
- Polish personal nouns
- Polish given names
- Polish male given names
- Swedish terms borrowed from English
- Swedish terms derived from English
- Swedish terms derived from Old English
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish proper nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish given names
- Swedish male given names