Thorkill
m.
Old Icelandic Þórr, the name of the god of thunder, deriving from Proto-Germanic *þunraz 'thunder' + Old Icelandic ketill 'kettle'.
- England
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- Latin
- ● 966 Turketulo (dat) CDAS DXXVIII,
Turketulum (acc) ibid. DXXVIII;
1189 Turketillus (nom) GASurv p. 189,
Turkil (nom) ibid. p. 158
- Estonia
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- Middle Low German
- ◑ 1592 Gyll Tiik1977 p. 288,
Torck ibid. p. 288
- Finland
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- Early Modern Swedish
- ◑ 1582 Torkå (nom) Audén1980 p. 172
- Ireland
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- Latin
- ● fin12thC Torkaill (nom) MunDocIr III, p. 10,
Turchel (nom) ibid. III, p. 8
- Sweden
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- Latin
- ● 1350 Thorkillus (nom) SDHK no. 6060;
1383 Thyrkils (gen) SRA-vol2 no. 1948
Cite as: R. Le Get, S.L. Uckelman. "Thorkill". In S.L. Uckelman, ed. The Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources, Edition 2016, no. 1. http://dmnes.org/2016/1/name/Thorkill.