57 messages over 8 pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next >>
Remster Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4797 days ago 120 posts - 134 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: German, French
| Message 33 of 57 31 October 2011 at 9:20am | IP Logged |
My nickname is ''Rambo''. I guess I don't need to explain it...
I'm not a macho kind of guy, but our names are similar, hence the nickname.
1 person has voted this message useful
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5685 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish
| Message 34 of 57 31 October 2011 at 12:04pm | IP Logged |
Lucky Charms wrote:
Matheus wrote:
Edit - my nickname is, in fact, my real name, due to lack of creativity
when I chose it.
If someone quote this with the version of my name in their language, it would be
appreciated. |
|
|
German - Matthias (ma TAI as) (TAI as in Taiwan) |
|
|
If you want to pronounce it the way a German would, it's actually "ma TEE as", with the middle syllable rhyming with bee, see, lee, etc. "ma TAI as" is the American pronunciation.
1 person has voted this message useful
|
Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6695 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map
| Message 35 of 57 31 October 2011 at 2:55pm | IP Logged |
My name is Iversen, and for some reason people often change this into Iverson, which would have been my name if I had been named according to Swedish name practice
Literally it means 'son of Iver'. Iver is a very old name in Danish, where it mostly was written as "Ivar", which may go even further back to a reconstructed Proto-Nordic form "InhuharjaR". At some point in our history we stopped naming ourself after our own fathers (as the Icelanders still do), and somebody whose father was named Iver thus inadvertently passed on the name "Iversen" to a whole host of descendants, including me.
In Irish it would be O'Iver
In Scottish Gaelic it would be MacIver
In Russian something like Ivervitch (Ивервич)
In Swedish it would be Iverson (but more likely Ivars(s)on)
In English it is apparently also Iverson
In Iceland it would be Johansónur, because my own father was called Johan
In some languages a patronym based on the genitive of a name is used instead of 'son of':
In some parts of Friesland it would be Ivers
In Latin Iveri
In Greek maybe something like like Ιβερούς (actually I ask myself this moment what the genitive of a word like καλοριφέρ 'radiator' might be)
In Spanish my nick would be Iversen y Ebbesen, because my mother's maiden name was Ebbesen (also a name with its roots firmly planted into Old Nordic soil)
Edited by Iversen on 11 February 2012 at 8:52am
2 persons have voted this message useful
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5445 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin
| Message 36 of 57 31 October 2011 at 11:58pm | IP Logged |
Iversen wrote:
In Spanish my nick would be Iversen Ebbesen, because my mother's maiden name was Ebbesen
(also a name with its roots firmly planted into Old Nordic soil) |
|
|
Or Íverez Ébbez if we adhere to medieval naming traditions (Pérez = son of Pe(d)ro, Hernández = son of Hernando
etc).
2 persons have voted this message useful
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6612 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish
| Message 37 of 57 01 December 2011 at 10:34pm | IP Logged |
My nickname Brun Ugle is Norwegian and means Brown Owl. 茶色の梟 in Japanese.
I like to use this name in various languages as my user name on different sites.
The name stems from a dream I had many years ago in which I was a small brown owl (I don't know what species). In the dream, I was purely owl. I had no sense or memory of any human identity. I lived in kind of cupola or small belfry on top of an abandoned wooden schoolhouse or church. There was no bell, but there was a pole going across where one might once have hung. I roosted there. The only other things I remember from the dream where flying in twilight, and a fight I had with three crows who came to attack me. (I don't remember who won, but since it was 3 against 1, I suspect it might not have been me.)
So now I know what it is to be an owl, and I keep that as part of my identity.
2 persons have voted this message useful
|
arashikat Diglot Pro Member United States Joined 4669 days ago 53 posts - 80 votes Speaks: Tagalog*, English Studies: Korean Personal Language Map
| Message 38 of 57 11 February 2012 at 1:46am | IP Logged |
My nickname is "Jing."
In Mandarin Chinese - 静 - it means quiet or tranquil.
In Korean - 징 - it's some kind of gong.
=)
1 person has voted this message useful
|
Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5839 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map
| Message 39 of 57 11 February 2012 at 12:56pm | IP Logged |
Brun Ugle wrote:
My nickname Brun Ugle is Norwegian and means Brown Owl. 茶色の梟 in Japanese. |
|
|
I understand your nickname well because it's the same two words in Danish!
Fasulye
1 person has voted this message useful
| Asal Bilingual Heptaglot Newbie YugoslaviaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4408 days ago 25 posts - 35 votes Speaks: Croatian*, Serbian*, SpanishC2, Latin, English, Persian, Macedonian Studies: Norwegian
| Message 40 of 57 03 December 2012 at 1:16pm | IP Logged |
My nickname is Asal (Persian, Arabic)
meaning HONEY (English), LA MIEL (Spanish), MED (Serbian) :)
1 person has voted this message useful
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum - You cannot reply to topics in this forum - You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum - You cannot create polls in this forum - You cannot vote in polls in this forum
This page was generated in 4.4297 seconds.
DHTML Menu By Milonic JavaScript
|