Gauti
Gauti is a short form of a Norse masculine name containing Gautr (Geat).
Variants:
Gotius [Sir Henry Ellis 1833 A General Introduction to Domesday Book 2: 131].
Gouti [Sir Henry Ellis 1833 A General Introduction to Domesday Book 2: 131].
Gauti [Erik Lind 1905-1915 Norsk-isländska dopnamn ock fingerade namn från medeltiden, column 304].
Gotiꝰ [Alexander Rumble 1983 Domesday Book 32 (Essex): chapter 13, paragraph 1].
Note:
Gotiꝰ, or Gotius, is a Latinized form.
Stem:
Gēat = Gautr, member of a Scandinavian tribe inhabiting the S. of Sweden [Walter Sedgefield 1910 Beowulf, 1st edition, page 289].
Suffix:
“Short forms of names in Class A formed by the addition of the suffixes -i (masc.) or -a (fem.) to one or other of the elements” [Gillian Jensen 1968 Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, page xxxi].
Explanation:
Gauti, Gautr: “Short forms of names in Gaut- or an orig by.n. meaning ‘man from Gautland’” [Gillian Jensen 1968 Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, page 98].
Usage:
A man called Gouti witnessed the Will of Thurstan: “Þis is to witnesse innon Norfolk̃· Harold erl· and Stigand bisscop· and Osgote Clape· and Godwine· ⁊ Wlgeat· ⁊ Eadwine· and Osbern· and Ulf· and Gouti” (“Of this are witness within Norfolk: Harold earl, and Stigand bishop, and Osgod Clapa, and Godwine, and Wulfgeat, and Eadwine, and Osbern, and Ulf, and Gouti”) [Benjamin Thorpe 1865 Diplomatarium Anglicum Ævi Saxonici, page 574].
