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[Facts] Re: Evochildis
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Possibly the same name as that of (Anglo-Saxon) Saint "Everild" (Eoforhild) of Everingham.
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you'd still expect the /r/ to remain, furthermore, in High German this prototheme remains "Ebur" - German Eber. Intervocalic /b/ in Dutch and English became initially a bilabial fricative, then the easier labiodental fricative /v/ in OE written "f". In modern German the bilabial fricative is an allophone of intervocalic /b/ in casual speech, but formally the regular stop.
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