Eve McLaughlin wrote: > > > >>I stand corrected - thank you! :-) But what is meant by 'weakened' in this context. I'm having difficulty making the leap from Etheldreda (or Aedelthred) to Audrey. >> >> >It looks pretty straightforward to me. Ae to E, common; - the bar d in Aedel (which I couldn't reproduce in basic character set) is halfway to 'th' already. d to th mutation, again common. And Ethelthreda or Etheldreda or Ethelreda to El or Al -drey and Audrey is also well known enough not to cause a problem. More or less any decent names book should have this. > I was hoping to find out what makes Audrey 'weak' as compared to the other two (softer sounds? diminutive version?). And Audrey still looks like a Frenchified version to me, much as Mathilde was rendered as Maud(e) by the Normans. I'll see what I can find elsewhere. Cheers, Lila. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * An Fhirinne in aghaidh an tSaoil - The Truth Against the World