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Arnold is a masculine German given name. It is composed of the Germanic elements ''arn'' "eagle" and ''wald'' "rule, power". The name is first recorded in Francia from about the 7th century, at first often conflated with the name ''Arnulf'', as in the name of bishop Arnulf of Metz, also recorded as ''Arnoald''. ''Arnulf'' appears to be the older name (with cognates in Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse), and German (Frankish) ''Arnold'' may have originally arisen in c. the 7th century as a corruption of ''Arnulf'', possibly by conflation of similar names such as ''Hari-wald'', ''Arn-hald'', etc. The name is attested with some frequency in Medieval Germany during the 8th to 11th centuries, as ''Arnold, Arnalt, Arnald, Arnolt''. It was occasionally spelled ''Harnold, Harnald'', and the name may have been conflated with an independent formation containing ''hari-'' "host, army". Its etymology ceased to be evident from an early time, and it was sometimes folk-etymologized as ''Ehrenhold'' in the early modern period. The French form ''Arnaud'' is recorded from the 10th century, and was also brought to England after the Norman conquest, where it replaced the cognate Anglo-Saxon form ''Earnweald'' (Doomsday Book ''Ernehale''; ''Ernaldus'' 12th century). However, the Anglo-Norman given name did not survive into the modern period (other than in surnames, as ''Arnall, Arnell''), and the German form ''Arnold'' was re-introduced in the Anglosphere in the 19th century. In the United States, ''Arnold'' had a relative surge of popularity at the beginning of the 20th century, peaking as the 89th most commonly given masculine name in 1916, but it dropped again below rank 200 by the 1950s. Hypocorisms of the name are: Arent (Arend, Ahrend), Arndt, Arne, Aart (etc.). Regional variants of the name include: French: Arnaud, Arnault, Italian: Arnoldo, Dutch: Arnout, Arnoud, Portuguese: Arnoldo, Spanish: Arnaldo, Catalan: Arnau, Arnald. The German name was also adopted in Old West Norse (14th century), as Arnaldr (Icelandic: Arnaldur).〔(nordicnames.de ), citing Kristoffer Kruken, Ola Stemshaug, ''Norsk Personnamnleksikon'' (1995)〕 Arnold is also recorded as a surname (via a patronymic) from the early modern period. (Cornelius Arnold, b. 1711). ==List of people called Arnold== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arnold (given name)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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