Athelstan

专有名词
中文释义

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A male given name. rare
  2. A surname.
  3. A small town south of Huntingdon in Quebec, Canada.
  4. A community in Iowa.
  5. A king of the Anglo-Saxons.

词形变化

Athelstane alternative

词源

An Anglo-Saxon male given name derived from Old English æþele (“noble”) and stān (“stone”), meaning "Gem". Old English variants are Æþelstān and Æðelstān. In modern English it is also found as Æthelstan, Athelstane, Addleston, Athelston, Athelstone and Ethelstone, usually surnames or place names. It is akin to the Dutch noun edelsteen and German noun and surname Edelstein and the Icelandic male given name Aðalsteinn.
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