Ohthere
Ohthere is an Anglo-Saxon masculine name composed oht (dread) and herr (army), cognate with Norse Ă“ttarr.
Variants:
Otre [William Bawdwen 1809 Dom Boc 1 (Yorkshire): 30].
Ohthere [Ludwig EttmĂĽller 1851 Vorda vealhstĂ´d Engla and Seaxna, page 43].
Octher [John Giles 1852 The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great 2: 39].
Othere [John Giles 1852 The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great 2: 39].
Ôhthere [Ernst Förstemann 1856 Altdeutsches Namenbuch, volume 1, 1st edition, column 5].
Ă“hthere [Oswin Kinsey 2016 English Compound Names, 2nd edition, page 82].
Prototheme:
á´ŹĘśá´› = fear, dread [John Giles 1852 The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great 2: 39].
Deuterotheme:
army = here [Charlotte Yonge 1863 History of Christian Names, 1st edition, 2: 406].
Usage:
A man called Otre held land in Devon in the time of King Eadweard III (the Confessor): “Otre tenebat tempore regis Eduuardi et geldabat pro uno ferling” (“Otre held it in the time of king Edward, and it paid geld for one ferling”) [Joshua Brooking-Rowe 1888 The Devonshire Domesday and geld inquest 1: 349].
