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I'm interested in any information I can find on the name "Olando" (please note: NOT Orlando). Olando was the middle name of a deceased uncle of mine who was of Swedish extraction. So far I've found:
1. It may be of German origin originally (or Spanish or Italian)
2. It appears to be a variation of names Orlando, Roland, Rolando
3. It seems to mean "famous throughout the land"
If anyone has further information about this unusual name, please share it with me - thanks!
1. It may be of German origin originally (or Spanish or Italian)
2. It appears to be a variation of names Orlando, Roland, Rolando
3. It seems to mean "famous throughout the land"
If anyone has further information about this unusual name, please share it with me - thanks!
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Isn't there a Swedish placename that's something like Oland? With an umlaut on the O, if I recall ...
So, maybe he was named after his ancestral home, with the O added to make it more of a personal name - like Orlando, as you say, but also like Otto and suchlike names.
So, maybe he was named after his ancestral home, with the O added to make it more of a personal name - like Orlando, as you say, but also like Otto and suchlike names.
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There is a big Swedish island called Öland (the ö is pr. approximately like "ea" in "pearl", but I doubt Olando has anything to do with it.
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Yes, I would say it is a variant of ORLANDO with the R omitted for some reason. ORLANDO is Spanish or Italian for ROLAND. Unlike this site many books claim that the association with "land" is secondary and that the original form of the name may have been something like HRODENAND, the second element being "nand" or "nanth". This is said to mean "bold", although in my Old German dictionary I can only find "nant" as "impudence". There is a third explanation of the second element: soemtimes "-and" is said to be a suffix indicating the present participle as "-ing" in English. The L in ROLAND could then still be explained as an assimilation to "land".
In the case of your name I can imagine the R was dropped because both names sound very similar. Sometimes changes take place due to misspelling.
Try to get hold of "Rolands Song", the sad and bloody story of Roland and his comrade Oliver. It's not really fun to read but it gives you an idea why ROLAND became so popular in the late Middle Ages and then again in times of Romanticism.
Andy ;—)
In the case of your name I can imagine the R was dropped because both names sound very similar. Sometimes changes take place due to misspelling.
Try to get hold of "Rolands Song", the sad and bloody story of Roland and his comrade Oliver. It's not really fun to read but it gives you an idea why ROLAND became so popular in the late Middle Ages and then again in times of Romanticism.
Andy ;—)
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