Alfred
alf·red
noun
Origin
From Middle English Alfred, from Old English Ælfrǣd, from ælf (“elf”) + rǣd (“counsel”). Doublet of Alfredo and Avery. Equivalent to elf + rede. The modern pronunciation with /f/ is a spelling pronunciation; the name in Old English was pronounced with [v], as shown in its Middle English descendant Alured (in which u stands for modern v).
Related words
Word family
- Alfred Alistair Cooke
- Alfred Bernhard Nobel
- Alfred Binet
- Alfred Charles Kinsey
- Alfred Charles William Harmsworth
- Alfred Damon Runyon
- Alfred de Musset
- Alfred Dreyfus
- Alfred Edward Housman
- Alfred Edward Woodley Mason
- Alfred Eisenstaedt
- Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski
- Alfred Hawthorne
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
- Alfred Kastler
Broader terms
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