Message: "Some European names"

Some European names

by Caprice

10/5/2005, 11:47 AM

I'd like to know the meanings of these names:

BOYS
Lothan (American boy, but the name may be German)
Enn (Estonian)
Arnas (Lithuanian)
Katsigianis (Greek)
Passmore
Hacen (French)
Kestas (Lithuanian)
Riaan (Afrikaans)
Mavian (Polish)

GIRLS
Vale (Lithuanian)
Jurga (Lithuanian)
Libia (Spanish)
Maelis (French)
Celustia (Spanish)

I wish I were as crazy as people say I am
~ Loesje

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- Miss Claire +7

10/5/2005, 3:10 PM

Hacen has no meaning in French... I've never heard of it either...

~~ Claire ~~

My ! are Alia, Eidel, Enola, Israel, Dudel, Yuri, Lina, Lorelei, Leilani, Owen, Julian, Glorinda, Mirinda
My ? are Hillel, Meshullam, Johnny, Ginny, Cordelia, Fiammetta, Yocheved
My ~ are Tehila, Tilda, Hailey, Gillian, Huldah
My / are Aglaia and July

- Cleveland Kent Evans (clevelandkentevans) +6

10/5/2005, 3:59 PM

Could it be possible that "Hacen" is someone's respelling of Hassan to try to get native French speakers to pronounce that name in a way that's closer to the original Arabic pronunciation? Or wouldn't that work?

- Maggie_Simpson +1

10/15/2005, 1:04 PM

Lenka, Daniela, Bohumil, Dalibor, Eduard, Ilja/Ilya, Svatopluk, Roman

- Maggie_Simpson

10/20/2005, 3:10 AM

Izabela?

- ADT +3

10/5/2005, 4:53 PM

No, it wouldn't a French "c" is a "k" unless it has an accent. And s = s sound in French. So no.

- Jenna (Jenna R) +1

10/5/2005, 6:01 PM

But in Hacen, the C is soft because it's followed by an E. Only CO and CA require a cedille (accent).

"Les yeux sont aveugles. Il faut chercher avec le coeur." -- Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

- Miss Claire

10/5/2005, 6:08 PM

ditto

~~ Claire ~~

- Chrisell

10/5/2005, 5:01 PM

This might be a bit of a stretch, but could it be a strange respelling of Haakon / Hagen etc?

♦ Chrisell ♦

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

- Caprice

10/5/2005, 2:36 PM

Thanks, all! n/m

I wish I were as crazy as people say I am
~ Loesje

- Nele

10/5/2005, 1:51 PM

BOYS
Enn (Estonian)- does not have any meanings in Estonian :)

- Kaleko (guest) +1

10/5/2005, 1:32 PM

Could it be that you misread an r for a v in two cases? So that it's Lothar and Marian, which are both in the database? A v in a Polish name would be quite unordinary :)

- Caprice

10/5/2005, 2:35 PM

It was Mavian in the text, but this was a Polish man living in Lithuania. Maybe he had "Lithuanized" his name?

I wish I were as crazy as people say I am
~ Loesje

- Satu (_satu_)

10/5/2005, 1:14 PM

Hi Caprice,

Lothan - variant spelling of Lotan (Hebrew: wrapt up, hidden)
Arnas - short form of Arnoldas, Lithuanian form of Arnold
Vale - short form of Valeria

/ Satu

http://www.nordicnames.de/

- Cleveland Kent Evans (clevelandkentevans) +1

10/5/2005, 12:10 PM

Libia is simply the Spanish version of Libya, the North African place name.

According to La Cote des prénoms en 2004 by Besnard & Desplanques, Maëlis, which is also spelled Maëliss, Maëlys, and Maëlyss, is a fusion of the Breton name Maëlle with Maylis. Maylis was itself orignally a telescoped form of Marie and lys, the French word for "lily." Maëlle is the feminine form of Maël, a Breton name from a Celtic word meaning "prince."

Passmore is an English surname from Old French words meaning either "across the moor" or "across the sea".

Riaan is a short form of Adriaan, the Dutch form of Adrian.

- Caprice

10/5/2005, 12:17 PM

Thanks a lot! n/m

I wish I were as crazy as people say I am
~ Loesje

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