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From: Francisco Antonio Doria <>
Subject: [BRAZIL-L] Abunazar: etimology for Lovesendo (III)
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 04:13:37 -0000

There is the oscillation Leowe-/Leode-: Leowegild/Leodegild. The initial
element appears in Leode-gonde, Leodegúndia. Then derives Leode-sind >
Lovesendo. In this case, meaning of the name is `way (Sind) of the people
(Leute).'

(Please review the files for my evolution on this name: originally I
wondered whether `Love; wasn't from Chlodweg, and until recently I
thought that the ending was a kind of participial, adjective ending - it
sounds so in Portuguese.)

Notice that Lovesendo/a is attested both near Coimbra (Lovesenda) and
certainly near Oporto.

chico


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Francisco Antonio Doria
Prix Caumont-La Force 1995
(Conféderation Internationale de Généalogie et d'Héraldique.)
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