Unnumbered source etymology
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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA male given name from Old English, in modern American use transferred back from the surname. · A surname transferred from the given name.
English surname, from the obsolete English given name Waltheof, from Old English weald (“power”) + þēof (“thief”), as in "one who snatched victory from battle." Comparable to, or ultimately Anglicized from, the Old Norse equivalent Valthiófr, from vald + *ᚦᛖᚢᛒᚨᛉ (*þeubaʀ). Compare Walthall, Waldie.
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- Derivation mentionwealdang
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