Attila (name)

[2] Related names are not uncommon among Germanic peoples of the period, i. e. Ætla, Bishop of Dorchester.

[3] Tom Shippey argued that the Gothic etymology is a product of 19th century Germanic romantic philological revisionism.

[2] Hyun Jin Kim noted Attila has more natural and probable Turkic etymology.

[5] Omeljan Pritsak considered ̕Άττίλα (Attila) a composite title-name which derived from Turkic *es (great, old), and *t il (sea, ocean), and the suffix /a/.

[6] It is a nominative, in form of attíl- (< *etsíl < *es tíl) with the meaning "the oceanic, universal ruler".