The story
- Proto-Germanic · derived from*audaz“wealth, riches”
- Proto-West Germanic · derived from*aud
- German · borrowed fromOtto
- English todayOtto
Borrowed from German Otto, from Old High German, short form of compound names (such as Otachar, Ottokar) beginning with Proto-West Germanic *aud, from Proto-Germanic *audaz (“wealth, riches”) (cognate of English Ed- in Edgar, Edmund, Edward, Edith, etc.).
Words from the same roots
Proto-Germanic*audaz all →
EdithHomme
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.