Waning

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Old High German

Alternative forms

Uuaning (Bavarian, Alemannic, 8th-9th C. CE)
Uuaninc (Bavarian, Alemannic, 8th or 9th C. CE)
Uuaninch (Alemannic, 9th C. CE)

Etymology

From wān +‎ -ing, from Proto-West Germanic *wāni (“hope, expectation”) and *-ing, Proto-Germanic *-ingaz (“relational suffix”)

Proper noun

Wāning m

a male given name

Descendants

Middle High German: Waninch (12th C.)
→ Medieval Latin: Uuaningus (9th C.)

References

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 455: “w 58 wān~ng”