Etymograph

English

Ludovic

Ludovic comes from Medieval Latin Lūdovīcus, and goes back to Proto-West Germanic *Hlūdawīg.

  1. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*Hlūdawīgreconstructed
  2. Medieval Latinc. 600–1500Lūdovīcus
  3. Frenchc. 1600–presentLudovic
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1922same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*Hlūdawīgreconstructed
  2. Medieval Latinc. 600–1500Lūdovīcus
  3. Frenchc. 1600–presentLudovic
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1922same form

Earliest quotation: 1922, Donald Alexander Mackenzie, Neolithic Trade and Industries: “Mr. Ludovic Mann, the Glasgow archæologist, has, however, compiled…”

Every English word from Proto-West Germanic *Hlūdawīg

Today it means

name A male given name from French [in turn from Latin].

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Etymograph / Proto-West Germanic *Hlūdawīg / Ludovic

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