English

Iliffe

Iliffe comes from Old English Ǣþelġifu.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

A compound of ǣþel ‘noble’ + ġiefu ‘gift, present’

Proto-Indo-European *h₂et-olo- ‘family, race’

Proto-Germanic *aþalą ‘nature’

Proto-Germanic *ōþalą ‘ancestral land, the land owned by one's kin’

Proto-West Germanic *ōþil ‘homeland’

Old English ǣþel ‘noble’

Proto-Indo-European *gʰebʰ- ‘to give, move’

Proto-Indo-European *gʰebʰ-e-ti

Proto-Germanic *gebaną ‘to give’

Proto-Germanic *gebō ‘gift’

Proto-West Germanic *gebu ‘gift’

Old English ġiefu ‘gift, present’

Every English word from Old English Ǣþelġifu

name A surname transferred from the given name.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.