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I would really appreciate more information on these names, especially meaning and origin. Nationality in brackets.
All male:
Tamdan [American]
Nissen [American]
Karapet [Armenian]
Wanderlei [Brazilian]
Chael [American] - is it just a spelling variant of Cael?
Teila [Hawaiian?]
Rousimar [Brazilian]
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"No, but, yeah, but, no, but, yeah, but, no, but, yeah"
All male:
Tamdan [American]
Nissen [American]
Karapet [Armenian]
Wanderlei [Brazilian]
Chael [American] - is it just a spelling variant of Cael?
Teila [Hawaiian?]
Rousimar [Brazilian]
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
"No, but, yeah, but, no, but, yeah, but, no, but, yeah"
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Nissen could be from the surname Nissen. According to Hanks & Hodges' A Dictionary of Surnames,, that has two different derivations:
1. From the Yiddish male name Nisn, itself derived from Nisan, the name of a month in the Hebrew calendar.
2. From a German and Danish partonymic from Nicholas; a surname found mostly in Schleswig.
P.S. Teila cannot be from the Hawaiian language, because there is no "T" in Hawaiian. :)
1. From the Yiddish male name Nisn, itself derived from Nisan, the name of a month in the Hebrew calendar.
2. From a German and Danish partonymic from Nicholas; a surname found mostly in Schleswig.
P.S. Teila cannot be from the Hawaiian language, because there is no "T" in Hawaiian. :)
This message was edited 2/18/2009, 11:43 AM
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Karapet is also written as Garabed because of the differences in Western Armenian and Eastern Armenian pronunciation. It means forerunner.
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