ABSTRACT

From the material presented and discussed in the preceding chapters, it follows that not all names assumed by earlier scholars, for example Feilitzen or Sweet, to be male or female names are necessarily so. There is certainly a high probability that some unmarked names, for example those with a second element of -swif>, are female; however this is not a certainty. Similarly, an unmarked name ending in -wulf is very likely to be male but is not invariably so.