wikipedia|Alfred the Great
English

Etymology
From Old High German alf- "elf" + -red "counsel".

Proper noun
en-proper noun

1. Alfred the Great, early king of England
2. given name|male|.

Translations
trans-top|given name
Danish: Alfred
Dutch: Alfred
French: Alfred
German: Alfred
Greek: (Alfredos)
trans-mid
Italian: Alfredo
Latin: Alfredus
Norwegian: Alfred
Russian: �л���ед (Al'fred)
Spanish: Alfredo
Swedish: Alfred
trans-bottom

Quotations
1980 Graham Greene: Doctor Fisher of Geneva, or the Bomb Party
::Unfortunately for me my father had combined diplomacy with a study of Anglo-Saxon history and, of course with my mother's consent, he gave me the name of Alfred, one of his heroes ( I believe she had boggled at Aelfred ). This Christian name, for some inexplicable reason, had become corrupted in the eyes of our middle-class world; it belonged exclusively now to the working class and was usually abbreviated to Alf. Perhaps that was why Doctor Fisher, the inventor of Dentophil Bouquet, never called me anything but Jones, even after I married his daughter.

Related terms
Alf
Alfie
Alfreda

Danish

Proper noun
infl|da|proper noun

1. given name|male||da: of English origin.

French

Proper noun
infl|fr|proper noun

1. given name|male||fr: of English origin.

German

Proper noun
infl|de|proper noun

1. given name|male||de: of English origin, fashionable in the 19th century.

Norwegian

Proper noun
infl|no|proper noun

1. given name|male||no: of English origin.

Swedish

Proper noun
infl|sv|proper noun

1. given name|male||sv: of English origin, fashionable in the 19th century.

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• 2007-12-10 11:11 - Makaokalani - quote, da,de,fr,no,sv, etc

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