He gave it to a star-shaped flower which Samwise Gamgee liked so much he named his daughter after it. So, this is making me giddy, because I'm a nerd for this kind of thing. To add to this, the name has also picked up extra etymological ties along the way. It is interesting to note that most of the early Aenors/Adenordes -- who were never recorded as Alienor/Eleonore/Eleanor etc in their lifetimes -- have been known almost exclusively by these later forms since the 13th century, indicating a definite conflation between the two names. But also, it makes sense to me that names merge all the time (such as Olivier crossing over the Latin for "Olive Tree" and taking on that meaning in most people's minds) and that it is proper to assign names meanings when they have been assigned those meanings for long periods of time. This drives me slightly batty, because I hate retreating to "meaning unknown." Thus an alternate theory for Eleanor's etymology took route. She was named Aenor after her mother, and was called by the Occitan phrase alia Aenor "the other AENOR " in order to distinguish her from her mother. Adenorde almost certainly looks to be a Germanic name, composed of either adal "noble" or alda "ancient" and nord "north." I believe this is the original way to pronounce it, because it is an English name and we are of English descent. J.R.R. Among the name's earliest bearers was the influential Eleanor of Aquitaine (12th century), who was the queen of Louis VII, the king of France, and later Henry II, the king of England. Eleanor of Aquitaine was also recorded by the name Helienordis during her lifetime and other Eleanor's are later listed as Helienor, showing how easily Hel- could also be El- and Al- in medieval France. It is the name of a number of women of the high nobility in western Europe during the High Middle Ages. Find the meaning, history and popularity of given names from around the world. Aenor's own paternal grandmother was Alienor de Thouars (c.1054-c.1093) and she herself also had a paternal grandmother of the same name: Aenor de Blois (b.c.990). A charter dated from 1130, when Eleanor was only eight, lists her and her mother separately as Aenordis and Alienordis showing that their names were regarded as differing slightly by their contemporaries. "Look in any baby name book and you'll most likely see Eleanor listed as "The French form of Helen" or simply meaning "Light." The curious form of Adamardis may simply be a spelling mistake, but it is very suggestive of a feminine form of Ademar (Audamar), from aud "wealth, fortune" and meri "famous.". My name is Eleanor and I am an American and my family, friends, and I all pronounce it "El-uh-NER" not "El-uh-NOR". Eleanor is a feminine given name, originally from a Franco-Provençal name Aliénor. This was the name of the mother of Eleanor of Aquitaine. 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