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Post by CrazyMary on Aug 2, 2006 23:05:41 GMT 2
I think this 'Urla' could be the "someone" Dave keeps mentioning.
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Post by DaveTheRake on Aug 3, 2006 18:13:05 GMT 2
I'm afraid not anymore, she lost her train; anyway the name was quite surprising, she told me it was German, but I couldn't find it. About "someone", that's a name that means in Spanish "Pilar" ;D
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Post by howlsfury on Aug 8, 2006 3:22:09 GMT 2
MARTIN(a sparrow used to help train falcons)MARK( a name archers were given for good luck)GLENN(A hidden vally with a river running through it)FORD(a place or shallow to cross a river) MARTIN MARK GLENN-FORD
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Post by A Kat Person on Aug 29, 2006 6:14:03 GMT 2
My full first name is Yekaterina, I don't know what it means, just a common Russian name equivalent to Catherine. I don't like it because no one here (in america) can pronounce it, they butcher it which has always annoyed me. Fortunately shortening it to "Kat" fixed that problem... maybe I will have it changed on all the official papers too...
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Post by Xetee on Oct 30, 2006 0:58:30 GMT 2
OH! What a good thread! My complete name is Alfonso Galisteo Gómez. Alfonso is a Spanish and Italian form of a Visigothic Germanic name, probably meaning "noble and ready", from the element adal "noble" combined with funs "ready". Other theories claim the first element is ala "all", hadu "struggle" or hild "battle". It's possible that two or more names merged into a single form.
My first surname is Galisteo, and it's a village of Extremadura, a region of Spain.
And my second surname is Gómez. I don't know what it means, but i know it's very ancient and it's Asturian (of Asturias, another region of Spain)
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Post by RegShoe on Oct 30, 2006 1:15:46 GMT 2
Well... The name my parents gave me is 'Irad', who was the grandson of Cain (the one who killed his brother :} ). There is a really small amount of people named like me, and it is a pretty uncommon name (I've never met someone with this name besides me). But that's the name my parents gave me.
Some years ago some of my friends decided I look German, so they started calling me Hans. The name stuck, and nowdays everyone call me Hans (well, except my family).
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Post by Lionheart on Oct 30, 2006 1:27:36 GMT 2
hmm... my name is 'Rutger' which is a typical dutch name... means something like "warrior with a spear" hell yeh :-D
So far no foreigner has been able to pronounce it correctly... I dare ye all :-P
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Post by Xetee on Oct 30, 2006 1:31:06 GMT 2
So far no foreigner has been able to pronounce it correctly... I dare ye all :-P How do you pronounce it? ;D
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Post by Humppaporo on Oct 30, 2006 8:36:39 GMT 2
Rutger? Piece of cake... Think in Finnish, you would write something like Röt-hör and then make the 'h' very strong. My first names are Claudia Barbera, Claudia means limping, Barbera means ' the Barbarian'. Well, fits quite well. I have had ankle surgery and cannot walk so well and according to my neighbours, I am a barbarian, because I do things my way. I always wonder if I would have had these life-long ankle problems if I had a different name... ;D
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Post by Tumi on Oct 30, 2006 8:58:50 GMT 2
It's nice to read about everyone's names I've always been interested in the meaning of names.. Mine is Sara Melina Luco. Sara is an old Hebrew name, which is supposed to mean something like queen or princess. Melina, my other first name, refers to the Greek activist Melina Mercuri (dunno why my parents liked the name so much) and Luco is a typical South-American name. Especially in Chile there seem to be a lot of Luco's - there was even a president named like that (Ramón Barros Luco, he ruled from 1910 to 1915). He was pretty famous I guess, the Chileans even named a sandwich after him
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Post by RegShoe on Oct 30, 2006 9:24:56 GMT 2
hmm... my name is 'Rutger' which is a typical dutch name... means something like "warrior with a spear" hell yeh :-D So far no foreigner has been able to pronounce it correctly... I dare ye all :-P Actually I think I can, Hebew has a sound which is simillar to the Dutch 'g'. It even harder I believe.. :} Sara is an old Hebrew name, which is supposed to mean something like queen or princess. Melina, my other first name, refers to the Greek activist Melina Mercuri (dunno why my parents liked the name so much) and Luco is a typical South-American name. Especially in Chile there seem to be a lot of Luco's - there was even a president named like that (Ramón Barros Luco, he ruled from 1910 to 1915). He was pretty famous I guess, the Chileans even named a sandwich after him In modern Hebrew, 'Sara' means a female minister (in the government). In Old Hebrew (like in the bible) it meant something like a female commander, or something like that (male is Sar). This name (Sara) is really really common here in Israel (specially for old ladies :} ). and BTW, does 'Luco' has a meaning? Because I know that 'Loco' is crazy :}
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Post by wolferin on Oct 30, 2006 10:53:58 GMT 2
My name is Klimentina, may be must be spelled Climentina, but I'm used to write it with"K" in the Latin alphabet, to be the same letter as in the Cyrillic. The name is from Latin origin and means "merciful". It's rare name and a long one - 10 letters. When I was a child I don't like it very much, 'cause everybody shortened it as he liked - Klima, Klime, Keti, Kiti, Ina. But as the time passed I understood that sometimes it's not bad to have a "remarkable" name and now I like it. And I gave to my son a name with 10 letters. ;D
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Post by Tumi on Oct 30, 2006 11:26:14 GMT 2
In modern Hebrew, 'Sara' means a female minister (in the government). In Old Hebrew (like in the bible) it meant something like a female commander, or something like that (male is Sar). This name (Sara) is really really common here in Israel (specially for old ladies :} ). and BTW, does 'Luco' has a meaning? Because I know that 'Loco' is crazy :} Hm, female commander.. I like that Luco doesn't have a meaning btw.. not that I know of.
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Post by RegShoe on Oct 30, 2006 14:03:36 GMT 2
That is quite simillar to the Hebrew word "Klemantina", which is well.. I think in English it's Clementine (like an Orange, but smaller) :}
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Post by Lionheart on Oct 30, 2006 14:08:43 GMT 2
You're right about te clementine.. it's slightly smaller than an orange... But Wolferin: what is the name of your son then? I mean 10 letters is quite a lot of letters I'm curious now Tumi: you say the name Luco is common in Chile, also the ame Melina is a spanish name, have you got South American roots? EDIT: I definately should learn to spell :S
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