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Ertan Newbie Turkey Joined 5236 days ago 15 posts - 16 votes Speaks: Turkish* Studies: English
| Message 1 of 58 02 October 2010 at 8:27pm | IP Logged |
In this topic we will write our name and it's English meaning.
we may find synonym of our names.
Let's start
my name is Ertan Andaç
Ertan;means dawn, daybreak
Andaç;means memento.
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| Old Chemist Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5172 days ago 227 posts - 285 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German
| Message 2 of 58 02 October 2010 at 9:38pm | IP Logged |
Very poetic. My name comes from Anglo-Saxon, Old English, Henry Kemp and means "home-ruling warrior," which makes me sound a lot more fearsome and frightening than I actually am! It corresponds to the German words Heim (home), Reich (rule), and Kampf, a struggle (as in Mein Kampf!). The Kemp part, my family name, meant a champion and later a soldier.
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| Ertan Newbie Turkey Joined 5236 days ago 15 posts - 16 votes Speaks: Turkish* Studies: English
| Message 3 of 58 03 October 2010 at 8:22pm | IP Logged |
Old Chemist wrote:
Very poetic. My name comes from Anglo-Saxon, Old English, Henry Kemp and means "home-ruling warrior," which makes me sound a lot more fearsome and frightening than I actually am! It corresponds to the German words Heim (home), Reich (rule), and Kampf, a struggle (as in Mein Kampf!). The Kemp part, my family name, meant a champion and later a soldier. |
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Hail for the warrior:D
At first thank you for your reply.I have been interesting in personal names for a long time.Because I think they are the most important pieces of world's cultures.
For example names like yours show us the interaction between different societies.
And I hope that more people will support us to expand our knowledge about our own names.
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| Roloman4 Bilingual Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5107 days ago 11 posts - 12 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, French
| Message 4 of 58 30 November 2010 at 1:49am | IP Logged |
My name is Juan Anhalzer, and doesn't particularly mean anything, well, of course, Juan
has a biblical meaning, bu that's far too common.
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| getreallanguage Diglot Senior Member Argentina youtube.com/getreall Joined 5470 days ago 240 posts - 371 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Italian, Dutch
| Message 5 of 58 30 November 2010 at 3:03am | IP Logged |
My first name (Ignacio) is a Spanish name. It comes from the Latin name Ignatius, which in turn comes from the Latin adjective 'igneus', which means 'fiery'. In short, the name, at least in Latin, gave off the idea of a hot tempered individual. I don't know about that. I'm not particularly prone to anger, in fact I'm kind of easygoing. I am passionate, however, about certain things in life, like music, language and languages.
Edited by getreallanguage on 30 November 2010 at 3:04am
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| Roloman4 Bilingual Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5107 days ago 11 posts - 12 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, French
| Message 6 of 58 30 November 2010 at 3:05am | IP Logged |
Oye, getreal... y que tal con el Balompié, eres apasionado con eso?
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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian
| Message 7 of 58 01 December 2010 at 9:56am | IP Logged |
My name is Levi Tooker. Levi (לוי) is a character in the Old Testament. The origins of the name are uncertain:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi#Origins
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The text of the Torah argues that the name of Levi refers to Leah's hope for Jacob to join with her, implying a derivation from yillaweh, meaning he will join, but Biblical scholars have proposed quite different origins of the name. Many scholars suspect that it simply means priest, either by being a loan word originating from the Minaean word lawi'u, meaning priest, or by referring to those people who were joined to the ark of the covenant. Some scholars believe that the Levites were not originally Israelite, instead originating as migrants, and consequently consider the name to refer to the Levites joining with either the Israelites in general, or the earlier Israelite priesthood in particular. |
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My last name, Tooker, is an old variant of Tucker, which derives from the verb tuck, 'to full cloth'.
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Middle English tuken, touken "to torment, stretch [cloth]" from Old English tūcian "to torment, vex" and Middle Dutch tucken "to tuck", both from Proto-Germanic *teuh-, *teug- (“to draw, pull”) from Proto-Indo-European *deuk- (“to pull”). Akin to Old High German zucchen "to snatch, tug", zuchôn "to jerk", Old English tēon "to draw, pull, train". |
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(http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tuck)
Edited by Levi on 01 December 2010 at 10:01am
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| Gusutafu Senior Member Sweden Joined 5520 days ago 655 posts - 1039 votes Speaks: Swedish*
| Message 8 of 58 01 December 2010 at 10:29am | IP Logged |
Roloman4 wrote:
My name is Juan Anhalzer, and doesn't particularly mean anything, well, of course, Juan has a biblical meaning, bu that's far too common. |
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So Anhalzer is just a random collection of letters, with no inherent meaning? Are you sure that's how they came up with it?
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