theophorous

[Jonathan Lighter]

OED has this, but its two cites are from the same journal and span only the
years 1903-1908.

1987 Jaan Puhvel _Comparative Mythology_ (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U.P.)
201: Fully a fourth of the thousands of early settlers [of Iceland]...bore
theophorous names of the type Thorsten or Thorulf.

JL

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