Talk:William
Other Latin forms[edit]
www.zeno.org/Heiligenlexikon-1858/A/Guilhelmus (with a few further forms having separate entries or being giving in entries of certain Williams) mentions several other forms and also states that "Guilielmus" is the most common. Forms could be:
- Gu-: Gulielmus, Guglielmus
- Gui- and -l-: Guilielmus, Guilelmus, Guilhelmus; Guilermus
- Gui- and -ll-: Guillelmus, Guillielmus; Guillermus (looks like Romance with -us for -e, maybe also Guilhermus, but *Guillermeus without e-dropping seems to be inexistant or very uncommon)
- Gvi-: Gvi- might occur instead of Gui- (compare qv vs. qu, and also keep in mind the usage of v and u of old texts)
- V- (1): Valhelmus
- V- (2): V- might occur for forms with W- below
- VV-: VV- might occur for forms with W- below
- W-: Wilhelmus, Willhelmus, Willelmus; Willermus
-84.161.26.34 13:12, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
Confusion over the French Etymology[edit]
"Borrowed from English William, though ultimately of Anglo-Norman [Term?] origin. Doublet of Guillaume." There is no need for this term request to exist. 71.168.239.138 21:27, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
Williams and William[edit]
I don't know how to incorporate this into Wiktionary, but I have noticed a phenomena which kind of drives me crazy, which is that there are a lot of English speakers from Africa and Asia who are apparently unaware of the difference between William and Williams. My first name is William, and, whether in written form or in spoken form, speakers from these areas will often add an 's' onto my name. I can't imagine why this is, except that they think that the last name Williams and the first name William are the same thing. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 01:37, 25 April 2019 (UTC)