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| mr_chinnery Senior Member England Joined 5538 days ago 202 posts - 297 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 17 of 58 12 February 2011 at 2:03am | IP Logged | ||
My first name is Matthew, which is of hebrew origin and means gift of God. I constantly remind my girlfriend of this :) My surname is Ford, which in English means a crossing place in a river. Not a bridge, but a natural heightening of the river bed, which makes it passable on foot, horse, camel, land rover, whatever :) So, a pretty spectacular first name and a rather drab surname for me. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mr_chinnery Senior Member England Joined 5538 days ago 202 posts - 297 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 18 of 58 12 February 2011 at 2:04am | IP Logged | ||
http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Forster 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| akprocks Senior Member United States Joined 5067 days ago 178 posts - 258 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 19 of 58 12 February 2011 at 2:44am | IP Logged | ||
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Dylan is a welsh name which means of the tide. In Google translate on modern welsh 'y llanw' is of the tide. Freeman is the name of a class of free men of fedual England.
However I don't know what Corel means, it dosen't mean the reef and it comes from my great-grandfather had a french last name if that helps. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mauritz Octoglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 4849 days ago 223 posts - 325 votes Speaks: Swedish*, EnglishC2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, Esperanto, French Studies: Old English, Yiddish, Arabic (Written), Mandarin, Korean, Portuguese, Welsh, Icelandic, Afrikaans | Message 20 of 58 13 February 2011 at 12:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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My name is a fairly standard Scandinavian name with a nice meaning. Mu first name Erik
means something like "alone ruler" or "eternal ruler". My last name is Svärd and it simply means "sword". I could be a dictator... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| cymrotom Tetraglot Groupie United States cymrympls.blogspot.c Joined 4818 days ago 56 posts - 60 votes Speaks: English*, German, Mandarin, Welsh | Message 21 of 58 16 February 2011 at 6:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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Here's some info on Dylan from wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Eil_Ton Etymology The etymology of the name Dylan is somewhat complex. In Welsh, there is a bound item dylanw- which appears in dylanwad ‘influence,’ dylanwadol ‘influential’ and dylanwadu ‘to influence’.[3][4] This element dylanw- appears itself to be a compound of the prefix dy- and the noun llanw ‘tidal flow’.[5] The prefix dy- appears in numerous words in Welsh and is reconstructed in Proto-Celtic as *dī- with the meaning of ‘off, away’.[6] The item llanw is reconstructed in Proto-Celtic as *φlanwo- ‘flood, filling.’ This *φlanwo- may plausibly have had a reduced form *φlanu- ‘flood.’ This etymology is echoed in the following Gaelic (Irish) words: [tuinne] nf. in : gob na tuinne, the water edge [tòn] nf. g. tòine; d. tòin; pl.+an, the fundament [tonn] nm. g.v. tuinn; pl.+an and tuinn, wave, surge, billow Alone, the Welsh element dy can mean ‘thy, thine’ or rather ‘your’ (singular) but there is no gloss of this word meaning ‘great,’ as the most cursory glance at the Welsh dictionary proves.[7] The name Dylan, then, can be maintained to be the descendant of a compound of Proto-Celtic elements *dī- φlanu-s which together basically mean something in context relative to one of the following: ‘The flood that recedes’ 'The wave that floods' 'The tide that returns'
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| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4911 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 22 of 58 16 February 2011 at 6:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'll go through my family's last names. Like a lot of other names in the US, some have changed when my ancestors passed through Ellis Island.
Henry: Shortened from McHenery when they came to America, meaning has already been discussed. Bruhn: Did not change when my great-grandfather came over from Denmark - it means brown. He married a German girl here with the last name of Diehl. I can't find anything on that surname, other than a note that it was a pet form of a personal name. Olson: Did not change when my great-grandparents came over from Norway - son of Ole/Olaf, which in turn means ancestral relic, from what I understand, but correct me if someone knows a more precise origin. Shafer: Changed from Schäfer when my great-great-grandparents came over from Germany, means Shepherd. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Segata Triglot Groupie Germany Joined 4952 days ago 64 posts - 125 votes Speaks: German*, Japanese, English Studies: Korean, Esperanto | Message 23 of 58 16 February 2011 at 10:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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My surname is "Voßmann". Voß is the low German (Platt) word for "fox".
So I guess my ancestors were either red-haired or.. uh.. cunning? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Dragomanno Triglot Groupie Zimbabwe Joined 4784 days ago 80 posts - 98 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2, GermanB2 Studies: Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Latin, Lithuanian, Albanian, Ancient Greek | Message 24 of 58 16 March 2011 at 1:06am | IP Logged | ||
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Nice thread! My name is Francesco, which is an old Italian word for "French". On its turn, "French" comes from the Germanic word "frank" meaning free. Edited by Dragomanno on 16 March 2011 at 1:28am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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