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HelpRe: Some atrocities from a bad name book I own. Read and weep!
in reply to a message by Caprice
Jett's meaning made me actually snort out loud. That's amazing.
Scottish / Scots Gaelic is a language in its own right, even if it's a very minority one nowadays. As I can figure, Luain, like Luan in Irish, can mean Monday (rather than just Diluain, the dictionary form of Monday in Scots), soooo there's a very tenuous link that could link Lundy to a mangling of the Scottish word for Monday, which is where they might have got the weird meaning from? I dunno. I mean, it's obviously complete rubbish, but there might be a tiny, tiny, tiny bit of a logic there, a tiny bit of information that's been misused?
Or maybe I'm fishing for that. Lundy is a hideous name, after all, and I've never met a Scottish person called it, even as a surname, or, for that matter, a living creature, but it's just a thought...
"Native American" makes me wince so hard. It's like saying 'X means 'Y' in "African"'. Eugh.
The JPG comment is just weird...
Scottish / Scots Gaelic is a language in its own right, even if it's a very minority one nowadays. As I can figure, Luain, like Luan in Irish, can mean Monday (rather than just Diluain, the dictionary form of Monday in Scots), soooo there's a very tenuous link that could link Lundy to a mangling of the Scottish word for Monday, which is where they might have got the weird meaning from? I dunno. I mean, it's obviously complete rubbish, but there might be a tiny, tiny, tiny bit of a logic there, a tiny bit of information that's been misused?
Or maybe I'm fishing for that. Lundy is a hideous name, after all, and I've never met a Scottish person called it, even as a surname, or, for that matter, a living creature, but it's just a thought...
"Native American" makes me wince so hard. It's like saying 'X means 'Y' in "African"'. Eugh.
The JPG comment is just weird...
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I like your tenuous link (nice to learn a bit of Scots Gaelic) but if the book can quite cheerfully declare that Helmut is French and Aeneas is Irish, then I'm betting they're thinking of that 'Scottish word' Lundi. (ie Monday in French)
Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel is named after an Old Norse word for puffin. I've never heard of it as a first name anywhere either.
Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel is named after an Old Norse word for puffin. I've never heard of it as a first name anywhere either.
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Isn’t it from Gaelic, but reversed / mispronounced? The Gaelic word for Monday is Diluain.
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I honestly don’t know. I’m from the south and Gaelic is VERY rare down here. I don’t speak a word of it. I’ve never heard anyone use it whilst speaking Scots (another Scottish language/ dialect, this one I know quite well.) So I don’t know about up north but it’s not used at all down here as a name/ surname/ word for Monday.
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