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- Proto-Germanic · derived from*Raginamunduz
- Frankish · derived from*Raginmund
- Old French · derived fromRaimund
- English todayRaymond
From Old French Raimund, from Frankish *Raginmund, from Proto-Germanic *Raginamunduz, composed of *raginą (“advice”) + *mundō (“protection”). Compare the first element in Reginald, Reynold, Ronald; the second element can be found in cognates Edmund, Sigmund, Osmond.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.