If you can or wish, provide your given first name. Give us its meaning and origin. I'll go first:
Amanda: Latin (Worthy of Love)![]()
If you can or wish, provide your given first name. Give us its meaning and origin. I'll go first:
Amanda: Latin (Worthy of Love)![]()
FRANCISCO
For this relief much thanks: 'tis bitter cold,
And I am sick at heart.
Hamlet Act I Scene I
The name I plan on taking: Sciezka. "polish: the path that leads to a way"
my real name: Jessica, based on the Hebrew, Yiskah "to see" a form of the name Sarah, meaning psychic or beautiful or some other blabberdash. of the charity (second part of my name) pretty self-explanatory.
Trevor: Welsh
It comes from the name of an actual place, and means "great settlement" or "big village".
The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries. It doesn't have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable.
--Ursula K. Le Guin
Means you are,at heart, a big city boy Trevor!![]()
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries. It doesn't have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable.
--Ursula K. Le Guin
My name is the Sweedish spelling of an Austrian name, so there's a bit of debate about it's meaning! However, the one I usually go with is: Birgitta: place of strength or stonghold.
The meaning of the name Anna is gracious, merciful
The origin of the name Anna is Hebrew, originally a form of HANNAH.
In Finnish "Anna" is an imperative form of verb "to give"
Anna (minulle)! Give (me)!
Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing. Her hair was golden as the sun's rays and her soul as clear and blue as her eyes.
Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera
Jon1JT: (Verb) 1. To chase clouds far-flung. 2. Scuffle.
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"He was nauseous with regret when he saw her face again, and when, as of yore, he pleaded and begged at her knees for the joy of her being. She understood Neal; she stroked his hair; she knew he was mad."
---Jack Kerouac, On The Road: The Original Scroll
My real name apparently means "pure", and origins from Scandinavia... I'll stick with K♥z![]()
"... turn off the sun pull the stars from the sky
the more I give to you the more I die ..." ©T.R.
NIN Schtuff
Mine (Noha) means 'those who have wisdom'...not sure how well that fits me though![]()
I'm the patron saint of the denial,
With an angel face and a taste for suicidal.
Muhsin and it means 'Doer of good'. Originated from Arabic language.
The source of any bad writing is the desire to be something more than a person of sense--the straining to be thought a genius. If people would say what they have to say in plain terms, how much eloquent they would be.
-S.T COLERIDGE
Sunniva - Gift of the Sun
My name is short of Anastasias.It means a russian princess aswell as the rebirth of spring.I have not looked in the new baby books but i am conent with the original meaning,since Ananstasia was origanally going to be my real name til my family had a fit.
my name is Sarah; it means princess.![]()
Calvin: You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
Hobbes: What mood is that?
Calvin: Last-minute panic.
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