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| Lucky Charms Diglot Senior Member Japan lapacifica.net Joined 6938 days ago 752 posts - 1711 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: German, Spanish | Message 9 of 58 01 December 2010 at 2:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm really interested in names as well, so I'm looking forward to the contributions in this thread!
My name is Brianna Mackenzie Forster. Brianna is a feminine form of Brian, an Irish name that's supposed to mean something like 'strong' (perhaps related to the English 'brawny'?) MacKenzie is the name of a Scottish clan. (My mom chose my first and middle name for the sound and the trendiness factor; sadly, there's no special significance behind these choices!) Forster is a German name indicating that my ancestors were occupied in forestry. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Roloman4 Bilingual Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5097 days ago 11 posts - 12 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, French | Message 10 of 58 02 December 2010 at 1:40am | IP Logged | |||||
Perhaps I was too quick to dismiss it as meaningless. I am aware that Anhalzer is native to the Anhalt region of Western Germany, apart from that, I see no further meaning to it. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 6114 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 11 of 58 02 December 2010 at 2:42am | IP Logged | |||||
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My last name is Cathryn Mataga, and only since I started studying Japanese I discovered how to write Mataga in Kanji. 亦賀
亦＝また 賀＝が 亦＝again. 賀=congratulations/joy -- according to Rikaichan. My father also wrote Cathryn as 喜安燐 き-やす-りん -- though the name has other origins, obviously. My mother's maiden name is Kemp shortened from Kemppainen in Finland. Not sure if this has any meaning or not in Finnish. My grandmother's maiden name was Saksa which is Germany in Finnish. I'm pretty sure she was just Finnish though. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6425 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 12 of 58 02 December 2010 at 7:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I think I've seen a thread very similar to this one before..
My name, Jiwon, is written as 지원 in Korean and 志源 in Hanja. 志 = meaning, purpose, will, determination 源 = source So my name means the source of will and purpose.. My dad named me so because he wanted me to lead a meaningful and purposeful life. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Gusutafu Senior Member Sweden Joined 5510 days ago 655 posts - 1039 votes Speaks: Swedish* | Message 13 of 58 02 December 2010 at 7:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
It seems like a reasonable guess then that "Anhalzer" derives from "Anhalt", meaning "person from Anhalt". "Anhalt" in turn probably means (in Swedish at least) "destination". 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| getreallanguage Diglot Senior Member Argentina youtube.com/getreall Joined 5460 days ago 240 posts - 371 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Italian, Dutch | Message 14 of 58 04 December 2010 at 5:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
Siendo argentino, entiendo por dónde viene tu pregunta. Pero la verdad es que no soy loco por el fútbol. Aunque me gusta ver los partidos del mundial... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Natalia Tetraglot Groupie Poland Joined 5101 days ago 40 posts - 52 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Spanish, Greek Studies: Russian, Serbian | Message 15 of 58 04 December 2010 at 10:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hello everybody!
My name is Natalia, and it's quite popular in my country (7th position in Poland in 2010). Origin of the name Natalia (according to babynamewizard.com): From the Latin Natalia, a name derived from diēs nātālis (natal day, Christmas), which was originally given to children born on Christmas Day. But I was not born on Christmas Day, I'm named after one of my great-grandmothers. ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| cymrotom Tetraglot Groupie United States cymrympls.blogspot.c Joined 5026 days ago 56 posts - 60 votes Speaks: English*, German, Mandarin, Welsh | Message 16 of 58 11 February 2011 at 7:37pm | IP Logged | |||||
MacKenzie means "son of Kenzie" Mac (son) Kenzie (fair)
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