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Barnard - Flemish/ Bjarnaror - Old Norse and Boulard - French

by Bobby Darin (guest)

4/28/2005, 7:16 PM

Meanings?

#French #OldNorse

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- Chrisell +2

4/28/2005, 11:45 PM

Barnard would be a variation of Bernard (click link)

:-)

♦ Chrisell ♦

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- Bobby Darin (guest) +1

4/29/2005, 3:26 AM

Attn - Christell

Hi, Chris, this was one of the idea's i considered, but cannot seem to establish the link at present.

Bernard is perhaps, from the Old English berner? a feeder of hounds (huntsman, i assume)

Thanks, for your thoughts, how long have you held a interest in names? - Bobby

- Chrisell

4/29/2005, 3:52 AM

I don't see the problem linking Barnard to Bernard? Flemish is one of the languages most closely related to English, so it's not surprising that a very similar form of the name would turn up there. And Barney is a common nickname for Bernard, providing another link. The German form is Bernhard; other related names are here: (http://www.behindthename.com/php/extra.php?extra=r&terms=bernard).

No, Bernard is not from Old English. Click the link! :-) It's derived from the Germanic elements bern "bear" and hard "brave, hardy".

Me and names . . . I've been interested in names in general since I was about 2 years old. I became interested in name usage when I was about 14 (after getting hold of the "baby names" book my Mum used when naming my much-younger half-sister), and I got really interested in name etymology after taking Linguistics in my first year of university (1999).

:-)

♦ Chrisell ♦

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.

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