Editing Clovis I (section)

== Name ==
{{Main|Clovis (given name)}}
Based on the attested forms, the original name is reconstructed in the [[Frankish language]] as *''Hlōdowik'' or *''Hlōdowig'' and is traditionally considered to be composed of two elements, deriving from both [[Proto-Germanic]]: ''*hlūdaz'' ("loud, famous") and ''*wiganą'' ("to battle, to fight"), resulting in the traditional practice of translating Clovis' name as meaning "famous warrior" or "renowned in battle".<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=de Vries|first=Jan|title=Altnordisches Etymologisches Worterbuch|date=1962|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-04-05436-3|edition=1977|pages=239|author-link=Jan de Vries (linguist)}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last1=Zheltukhina|first1=Marina R.|last2=Vikulova|first2=Larisa G.|last3=Vasileva|first3=Gennady G. Slyshkin & Ekaterina G.|date=2016|title=Naming as Instrument of Strengthening of the Dynastic Power in the early middle Ages (France, England, Vth –XIth Centuries)|url=http://www.ijese.net/makale/989.html|journal=International Journal of Environmental and Science Education|pages=7200–7202}}</ref>

However, scholars have pointed out that [[Gregory of Tours]] consistently transcribes the names of various Merovingian royal names containing the first element as ''chlodo-''. The use of a [[close-mid back rounded vowel]] (o), rather than the expected [[close back rounded vowel]] (u) that Gregory does use in various other Germanic names (i.e. [[Fredegund]]is, [[Arnulf (archbishop of Reims)|Arnulfus]], [[Gundobad]]us, etc.) opens up the possibility that the first element instead derives from [[Proto-Germanic]] ''*hlutą'' ("lot, share, portion"), giving the meaning of the name as "loot bringer" or "plunder (bringing) warrior". This hypothesis is supported by the fact that if the first element is taken to mean "famous", then the name of [[Chlodomer]] (one of Clovis' sons) would contain two elements (''*hlūdaz'' and ''*mērijaz'') both meaning "famous", which would be highly uncommon within the typical [[Germanic name]] structure.<ref>Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, Bern.</ref><ref>Nederlandse Voornamenbank, [https://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nvb/verklaring/naam/Lodewijk Lodewijk], [[Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences]], [[Meertens Institute]].</ref>

In [[Middle Dutch]], a language closely related to Frankish, the name was rendered as ''Lodewijch'' (cf. [[modern Dutch]] ''[[Lodewijk]]'').<ref>[[Meertens Instituut]], [http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nvb/verklaring/naam/Lodewijk Nederlandse Voornamenbank, ''Lodewijk'']. The second element corresponds to Middle High German ''wîc'', with [[Final-obstruent devoicing#German|final-obstruent devoicing]], as in ''Ludewic''. The Middle Dutch form is ''wijch'' (modern Dutch ''wijg''; see [http://gtb.inl.nl/iWDB/search?actie=article&wdb=WNT&id=M086196&lemma=wijg WNT, "wijg"]), as in original Dutch [http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nvb/verklaring/naam/Hadewig ''Hadewig'', ''Hadewijch''].</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=Paraschkewow|first=Boris|title=Wörter und Namen gleicher Herkunft und Struktur: Lexikon etymologischer Dubletten im Deutschen|date=2004|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-017470-0|pages=57|language=de}}</ref> The name is found in other [[West Germanic languages]], with [[cognate]]s including [[Old English]] ''Hloðwig'', [[Old Saxon]] ''Hluduco'', and [[Old High German]] ''Hludwīg'' (variant ''Hluotwīg'').<ref name=":0"/> The latter turned into ''Ludwig'' in [[Modern German]], although the king Clovis himself is generally named Chlodwig.<ref name=":2"/> The [[Old Norse]] form ''Hlǫðvér'' was most likely borrowed from a West Germanic language.<ref name=":0"/>

The Frankish name ''*Hlodowig'' is at the origin of the French given name ''[[Louis (given name)|Louis]]'' (variant ''[[Ludovic]]''), borne by 18 [[kings of France]], via the Latinized form ''Hludovicus'' (variants ''Ludhovicus, Lodhuvicus'', or ''Chlodovicus'').<ref name=":1"/> The English ''Lewis'' stems from the Anglo-French ''Louis''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Lewis|url=https://www.etymonline.com/word/lewis|website=[[Online Etymology Dictionary]]}}</ref>