Eduard Sievers created type-lines based on the metrical patterns that he saw in Old English poetry, and named them in alphabetical order according to the most frequently used.
However, following Eduard Sievers, it is usually now spelled with a short o and taken as meaning "herd boar, leading boar", as Lombard sonarþair is defined in the Edictus Rothari as the boar "which fights and beats all other boars in the herd".
Eduard Shevardnadze | Wolfgang Sievers | Eduard Stiefel | Eduard Hanslick | Eduard Khil | Eduard, Duke of Anhalt | Eduard Buchner | Julius Eduard Hitzig | Friedrich Eduard Schulz | Eduard Zeller | Eduard Tubin | Eduard Spranger | Eduard Mörike | Eduard Kuznetsov | Eduard Heis | Eduard Dietl | Eduard Brunner | Jacob Sievers | Eduard van Beinum | Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe | Eduard Suess | Eduard Steuermann | Eduard Sievers | Eduard Puricelli | Eduard Prchal | Eduard Pechuël-Loesche | Eduard Nalbandyan | Eduard Knoblauch | Eduard Gufeld | Wolfram Sievers |