Helidin

Old High German

Etymology

From helid (“warrior, hero”) +‎ -in (fem. suffix.) (from Proto-West Germanic *-ini)

Proper noun

Helidin f

1. (Bavaria) a female given name, equivalent to German Heldin

Declension

declension of Helidin (feminine i-/jō-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	Helidin	Helidinnā
accusative	Helidinna, Helidinne	Helidinnā
genitive	Helidinna	Helidinnōno
dative	Helidinnu	Helidinnōn, Helidinnōm

The nominative singular of the jō-stems (Proto-West Germanic *-ī) was originally uninflected like the ō-stems; and the accusative form usually took its place. The old nominative singular is preserved in fem. personal names, and in the derivatives ending in *-inī and *-unjō. The jō-stems show in the oldest documents instead of -jō the ending -e and retain the j before o, u. From the 9th C. onwards, their inflection entirely coincides with that of the ō-stems, with -a replacing -e.

References

• Sigmund Herzberg-Fränkel, editor (1904), “I: Dioecesis Salisburgensis: Regiones Salisburgensis et Bavarica”, in Necrologia Germaniae (Monumenta Germaniae Historica) (in Latin), Tomvs II Dioecesis Salisbvrgensis, Berolini: Apvd Weidmannos, →ISBN, →OCLC, Liber confraternitatum vetustior {784-11th C.), Monumenta Necrologica Monasterii S. Petri Salisburgensis, page 11
• Ernst Friedrich Johann Dronke, editor (1850), Codex Diplomaticus Fuldensis (Monastic Documents; in German), Cassel: Druck und Verlag Theodor Fischer, →DOI, →OCLC, pages 18, 43, 78-79