Bill is short for Old English 'bilewit'. In Old Irish, 'bile' means 'sacred tree', which would fit Bill's somewhat treeish nature. Conceivably, bilewit could originally have meant 'Sage (or perhaps Vaette) of the Sacred Tree', since 'wit' could be a stream-lined 'wita'(sage) or 'wiht'(wight/vaette). Bill is called a Trewita (~druid), which means 'tree-sage".
Will, on the other hand, is called a Saeder (OE 'seeder'), a seed-sower, or caster of spells, as in siden/seidhr-- oh, and maybe satyr, all of which certainly fit his profile of 'maker of wild magic'.
Bilewit= innocent, simple, sincere, gentle, gracious.
Vaette (ON)= a spirit of place, as in land-vaettr (land-wight).
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