English
Orlando
Orlando comes from Italian Orlando ‘Roland’, and goes back to Proto-West Germanic *Hrōþiland.
- Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*Hrōþilandreconstructed
- Italianc. 1300–presentOrlando‘Roland’
- Englishearliest quotation 2010same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*Hrōþilandreconstructed
- Italianc. 1300–presentOrlando‘Roland’
- Englishearliest quotation 2010same form
Earliest quotation: 2010, Joanne Harris, Doubleday: “St. Oswald's boys were not called Ben. St Oswald's…”
The story
The city in Florida has gone by the name since 1857, perhaps in honor of the soldier Orlando Reeves, whom the Seminoles killed there in 1835. Previously, it had been settled in 1844 as Jernigan.
Every English word from Proto-West Germanic *Hrōþiland
Today it means
name A male given name from Italian.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-West Germanic *Hrōþiland / Orlando