An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Ekelname

by Friedrich Kluge

Ekelname, ‘nickname,’ simply Modern High German, in Middle High German â-name, properly ‘false name’; from Low German œkelname; compare Swedish öknamn, ‘nickname,’ Old Icelandic aukanafn, ‘epithet, surname’; from the Teutonic root auk, ‘to increase.’ See auch.