Edsel

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Usage：Various

Meaning & History：

Variant of ETZEL notably borne by Edsel Ford (1893-1943), the son of the American industrialist Henry Ford.

Form of ATTILA used in the medieval German saga the 'Nibelungenlied'. In the story Etzel is a fictional version of Attila the Hun.

ATTILA male History, Hungarian

Possibly means "little father" from Gothic atta "father" combined with a diminutive suffix. This was the name of a 5th-century leader of the Huns, a nomadic people from Central Asia who had expanded into Eastern Europe by the 4th century. Attila was the name given to him by his Gothic-speaking subjects in Eastern Europe; his real name may have been Avithohol.

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EQUIVALENTS

GERMANIC MYTHOLOGY: Etzel

HISTORY: Attila

HUNGARIAN: Attila, Etele

TURKISH: Atila, Atilla, Attila

FEMININE FORMS

HUNGARIAN: Etel, Etelka