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Hey-hey! You're here! Everyone welcome Merriment! :)
"Nanaea, is this what you meant?"Yep -- you found the right place, all right. We can always use a Welsh names scholar. Welcome! :)Just curious, but what field is your Masters in?-- Nanaea
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Try not to laugh but...The masters' degree title was 'WOMENS' Names in Wales, Brittany and Cornwall, 400-1400 AD'.Start as you mean to go on, that's what I say.And how did you know I loved the name Hecate?
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I see you're enjoying those anagram aliases I sent you. Oh, and Hecate's one of my faves, too. :)
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Hiya, Merriment...nice to meet you. :)
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Welcome Merriment :)Cool name, I am Silver, lol, obviously.
I enjoy the new evolving sides of etymology and the more 'lost' names, that are either very uncommon, or just unique.
So you gonna be the resident Welsh scholar, and we got Nan, the resident Satanist, and Pavlos, the resdient Greek,What's Silver?
Resident half crazy no nothing Canadian?
Resident 'i can find some really wierd names' Silver.
lolor maybe just Silver, im not exactly good at any one thing.
If it's a geography term, try me!
btw, like my section on weapons for names, I have kinda started on on geography terms.
Some are really cool!
Another name that is an awsome word, but... as for a name...
Dynasty
you call them Dyna for short, reminds me of that song 'Someones in the kitchen with Dyna' which i think is all sexual references
and the name easily turns into 'Die nasty'
:SAnd does anyone think my 'Dessloch' theory could be right? Not is, but could be?
Or am i way out on a limb here.
:) Nice to meet ya again :)~Silver
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"And does anyone think my 'Dessloch' theory could be right? Not is, but could be?"I haven't been around too much lately, so I guess I missed that posting of yours, Silver. Want to run it by me again?And what's Silver? Our resident creative writer/coiner of fantasy literature names, that's what. :)-- Nanaea
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cool! and the Dessloch theory...I found the name Dessloch on my many travels, and at first glance it seems Gaelic
the loch perhaps just simply means 'loch' as a type of body of water.
And I found the Gaelic name Desmond on the site, the 'des' being from 'deas' which appears to mean 'from south'
So Dessloch seems like it could easily be a Gaelic name meaning 'from the south Loch'
Even if this is not what the name means, does this even make sence?
Am I starting to get the hang of this at all? lol
Any clue to what it could mean?
Thankz Nan, and rest.Tootles~Silver
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Could you break it down a little more?
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Sounds plausible to me, provided you've exhausted all possible alternate spellings of the name in an attempt to determine whether "Dessloch" might be a misspelling of another name.But the element "loch" in a name *is* often taken to mean "lake", just as you stated. "Des" before a name, however, can mean "from the" if the name is of French origin. As in the name "Deschamps", meaning "from the fields".Interesting name, and logical meaning you've worked out for it, Silver. :)-- Nanaea
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"from the lake" eh? ok then, lol. But I am in french and 'des' does not mean 'from the' is this an older form of French? n/t :)
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Well, that probably wasn't a French surname, and......I'm not "in French". :) Only know that the prefix "des" in French surnames implies "from the" or "of the". Perhaps "des" is a contraction of "de" and something else in French? "De les" possibly?-- Nanaea
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De = of, les = the, des = of the... -didnt have french this semester- u ppl are to bright for me :)
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