Gunzo

Old High German

Alternative forms

  • Cunzho (Bavarian, 8th C. CE)
  • Chonzo, Chunzo, Cuntzo, Cunzo
  • Gonzo (10th-11th C. CE)

Etymology

From gunda (“battle, fight”) +‎ -zo (diminutive suffix), perhaps from Proto-West Germanic *-iti ~ *-ittjas (from Proto-Germanic *-itją)[1] + *-ō. Some forms such as Chunzo and Chonzo are possibly derived instead from kund (“known, familiar”), compare Old English Cuþa. Unrelated to English gonzo.

Proper noun

Gunzo m (Alemannic)

  1. a male given name, a diminutive of Gundahhar, Gundheri, Gundolf, or Gundrāt etc. [10th C.]
  • Gunza f
  • Gunzi m

References

  1. ^ Förstemann, Ernst (1900), Altdeutsches Namenbuch‎[1] (in German), 2nd edition, volume I: Personennamen, Bonn: P. Hanstein's Verlag, →OCLC, column 1667: “germ. suffix -itja”
  • Geuenich, Dieter, Ludwig, Uwe, editors (2019), “Lemmatisiertes Personennamenregister”, in Die St. Galler Verbrüderungsbücher (Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Libri memoriales et Necrologia, Nova series; IX) (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 406: “g 238 gunth-z”
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