My name is a late medievel form of 'Gawain', meaning 'White Hawk'.
My name is a late medievel form of 'Gawain', meaning 'White Hawk'.
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Anais Nin.
My name is a derivative of Daniel, it means "God is my Judge" in hebrew.
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
Leah: Hebrew (Weary).Combined with my middle name, I am a "weary Christian."
Ethel Mertz: Gee, this high altitude sure gives me an appetite.
Fred Mertz: What's your excuse at sea level?
Fred Mertz: Now what are we supposed to do? Thumb a ride on a passing halibut?
Ricky Ricardo: I can't afford it.
Lucy Ricardo: Those must have been the first English words you learned.
My name is Frank. It was originally the name of a germanic spear, then of a germanic tribe. It means free man. The name goes back to my great great grandfather, a Magyar immigrant.
My name means aprox. "the dear one" (in Serbian). I'm a great disapointment, unfortunately.
Interesting thread...
OK, here we go: Claes is a Swedish version of Nicolaus (of Greek origin), which I find pretty amusing when you connect the fact that I was born on Christmas Day, with the fact that the Greek Saint Nicholaus over the years have turned into the Anglo-Saxon Santa Claus: Father Christmas.
As it happens, my daughters name (Nicole) also originates from Nicolaus
/Claes
Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
My given first name's latin too and means "star".Originally Posted by _JadeRain_
@Claes: Saint Nikolaus (Nicholas) is still celebrated on the 6th of December over here. We don't have a Father Christmas so far.
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“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”- Robert McCloskey
Elizabeth- "Separated for God" - love my name, it's Hebrew too, was the name of John the Baptist's mother but became very popular with Queen Elizabeth
my middle name means "grace, favour" in French and Hebrew
My last means Roman
so basically I am a Graced Roman who is separated to God. (^:
"O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself. "
-Louis Aragon
Joseph, but i go by Joey
origin is Hebrew
meaning is god will increase
what i used to be will pass away and then you`ll see that all i want to know is happiness for you and me...
My name stands for Politeness in own language..and in Bhudhism it is also the name of a book
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." --*Helen Keller*
Hmmm, I started to browse intoo the old threads, this one is very interesting. my first name means two things in my mother tongue: "lilly of the valley" and " tears". Somehow antagonic...
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
William Shakespeare
I'm pretty sure lily of the valley is symbolic of death. That's what I've always heard anyway. So, if that's true, I guess the two meanings fit.
Edit: OH! My name is a funny one. I get all sorts of weird and wonderful stuff.
Google Result One:
The girl's name Carly \c(a)-rly, car-ly\, also used as boy's name Carly, is a variant of Carla (Latin), Carlie, Carol (English), Caroline (French, Latin, Italian) and Charlotte (French), and the meaning of Carly is "little and womanly".
Google Result Two:
Origin: German
Meaning: Free man
Origin: English
Meaning: Pet form of Carlene
Google Result Three:
The Meaning of the name Carly
The meaning of the name Carly is as follows: Female ruler
The Origin of the name Carly
The origin of the name Carly is believed to be: Teutonic
No wonder why I'm such a confused person!
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"Oh the clever
Things I should say to you
They got stuck somewhere
Stuck between me and you"
Maximiliano (or Maximilian, in English) comes from Latin Maximilianus (I didn't come up with a fanciful user name), and it means "the greatest".
Oh no, I'm not that big. I'm just a regular sized dude
Bienvenu means Welcome
Les Miserables,
Volume 1, Fifth Book, Chapter 3
Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.
Robin... I'm thinking "bird." It probably doesn't get any deeper than that.
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-Pi
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