The story
- Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*Þeudubalþ
- Old French · derived fromTheobald
- English todayTheobald
From Old French Theobald, Tibaut; both ultimately derived from Proto-West Germanic *Þeudubalþ. Common in the Middle Ages under various spellings in the archaic pronunciation. After it became obsolete a spelling pronunciation took over. Doublet of Theudebald. Compare Old English Þēodbald.
Words from the same roots
Proto-West Germanic*Þeudubalþ all →
Theudebald
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.