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Loðene
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Old English
Alternative forms
ang Loþene
ang *Loðen (possible nominative form)
ang *Loþen (possible nominative form)
Etymology
Potentially from ang cel-bry-pro *Lugudūniānā, or ang cel-pro *lutā.
According to A. D. Mills, in A Dictionary of British Place Names, named after "one Leudonus".
See etymology of Lothian on Wikipedia for more information.
Proper noun
m 1
Lothian
early 12th century, in the Peterborough Chronicle
ang ...ut of Scotlande into Loðene on Englaland...Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Laud Misc. 636, fol. 68v: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/87d8c5b2-28de-4fe5-944c-67f0849b8fdb/ ...out of Scotland into Lothian in England...
ang ...⁊ se b[iscop] of Loþene I[ohan]...Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Laud Misc. 636, fol. 84v: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/87d8c5b2-28de-4fe5-944c-67f0849b8fdb/ ...and the bishop of Lothian Iohan...
Descendants
en Lothian
ang Places