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View Name: Parnel


PARNEL
GENDER: Feminine
Meaning & History
Contracted form of PETRONEL. In the later Middle Ages it became a slang term for a promiscuous woman, and the name subsequently fell out of use.
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VARIANTS: Pernel, Peronel, Petronel
OTHER LANGUAGES: Petronella, Pietronella (Dutch), Pétronille (French), Petronella (German), Petronilla (Italian), Petronilla (Late Roman), Petronela (Polish), Petronela (Romanian), Petronela, Nela (Slovak), Petronella (Swedish)
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