Domhere

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *Dōmahari, from Proto-Germanic *Dōmaharjaz, from *dōmaz (“judgement”) +‎ *harjaz (“army”). By surface analysis, dōm +‎ here. Cognate with Early Medieval Latin Dōmarius (via Old High German), Old Norse Dómarr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdoːmˌxe.re/, [ˈdoːmˌhe.re]

Proper noun

Dōmhere m

  1. a male given name
    • variously c. 9th century CE to 1300 CE and occasionally later, Joseph Stevenson, editor, Liber Vitæ Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis [Book of Life of Durham Church], London: J. B. Nichols and Son, published 1841, page 24, line 27:
      Domheri
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)