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Most books say, that the second part of the name is what is now “Not” in modern German, then meaning “danger” (in battle) or “eagerness”. But in a usually quite reliable book (Rosa und Volker Kohlheim, Das große Vornamenlexikon, Mannheim 2003) I found, that the -NOT part is from a word meaning “fight”, that goes back to Old West Nordic “hniótha” (to strike). Does anybody know more? Satu maybe?