English
Roderick
Roderick comes from Proto-Germanic *Hrōþirīks.
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*Hrōþirīksreconstructed
- Englishearliest quotation 1924Roderick
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*Hrōþirīksreconstructed
- Englishearliest quotation 1924Roderick
Earliest quotation: 1924, P. G. Wodehouse, Bill the Conqueror: “You must not forget that eventually Roderick will have…”
A compound of *hrōþiz ‘praise, fame, glory, renown’ + *rīks ‘king, ruler’
Proto-Indo-European *kreH-
Proto-Germanic *hrōþiz ‘praise, fame, glory, renown’
Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- ‘to straighten’
Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs ‘king, ruler’
Proto-Celtic *rīxs ‘king’
Proto-Germanic *rīks ‘king, ruler’
The story
Medieval English name from Proto-Germanic *Hrōþirīks, revived after Walter Scott used it in a poem in 1811, where it is a translation of its Spanish cognate Rodrigo. Roderick is also used to anglicize Scottish Ruairidh and Welsh Rhydderch.
Every English word from Proto-Germanic *Hrōþirīks
Today it means
name A male given name from the Germanic languages.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *Hrōþirīks / Roderick