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Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *Audarīk, from Proto-Germanic *Audarīks, from *audaz (“happiness, prosperity”) + *rīks (“king, ruler”). Cognate of Old High German Ōtrih and Old Norse Auðríkr.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Ēadrīc m
- a male given name
- Eadric the Wild; an 11th Century Anglo-Saxon Thegn.
- Eadric of Kent; an Anglo-Saxon King of Kent.
- Laws of Hlothhere and Eadric
Þis syndon þā dōmas ðe Hloþhære ⁊ Ēadrīc, Cantwara cyningas, asetton. Hloþhære ⁊ Ēadrīc, Cantwara cyningas, ēcton þā ǣ, þā ðe heora aldoras ǣr ġeworhten, ðyssum dōmum þe hȳr efter sæġeþ.- These are the laws that Hlothhere and Eadric, kings of Kent, laid down. Hlothhere and Eadric, kings of Kent, added these laws listed hereafter to the laws their ancestors created.
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