The -kin connection isn't too heavy for me, since I pronounce tarquin -kwin and not -kin. Interesting you bring it up though, I was just reading about pet forms a few days ago and thought how much more
convenient -y is than -kin, and how odd that -kin would be the natural English pet form.
Wow your teacher has good name taste. Anna-Sofia pretty much is perfect. (Well so is
Minerva.) I wish
my favorite teacher...*mumble mumble*
I do not know anything about Etruscans! *frustrate* All I know is that
Claudius wrote an Etruscan dictionary and it got lost and so now I don't know what half of my favorite names mean. I shall now wikipedia Etruscans.
I actually have a character named
Tarquin L. L. :D I just renamed him from
Thomas Regulus Aquinas Voltaire "
Tom." I'm trying it out.
Tarquin might fit him a lot better. (
HE IS
HANDSOME!)
I
LOVE Anna-Cecilia! ..well I am trying to wrap my mind around the dash there, but yeah I loooove that. Very musical, phonetically and because
Cecilia Bartoli and St
Cecilia and
well this woman isn't music but isn't she beautiful?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_with_an_Ermineplus
Cecilia is phonetically just like a sonatina within itself.
HEE! That is a cute
Cornelius image. :D
Thanks!