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From which languages do your and your Dc's names come?

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Psammead · 12/02/2013 11:21

Me: Latin
Dh: Danish
Dd1: Latin
Dd2: French

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womblingalong · 12/02/2013 15:53

Don't worry MrsPear, it is the equivalent of Latin in Europe, i.e. not used very much except by scholars and priests!

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badtime · 12/02/2013 15:54

moomins, it's actually pretty hard to make up a name that doesn't exist. To test this, I just made up 3 names. One of them had no hits but the others did, one of them appearing on a baby name site (Lamara) and the other bringing up information about someone with that name (Dorelda). I think it would be easy to claim any name was a variant of a 'real' name.

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Moominsarehippos · 12/02/2013 15:55

Arkelfarq.

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piprabbit · 12/02/2013 16:00

Me: Greek
DH: Greek
DD: Greek
DS: Hebrew

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badtime · 12/02/2013 16:01
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WhichIsBest · 12/02/2013 16:01

Me- English
DH- Greek
DC- Latin and German

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Absy · 12/02/2013 16:02

DH: Hebrew
Me: Hebrew
Future DCs: Hebrew

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Moominsarehippos · 12/02/2013 16:05

Nooooooooooo! I made it up!!

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badtime · 12/02/2013 16:07
Grin
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KatherineKrupnik · 12/02/2013 16:20

me: Hebrew
DP: English
DD1: Russian (or Spanish, depending on which dictionary)
DD2: German

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Kveta · 12/02/2013 16:25

Me Latin, dh Czech, ds Latin/French, dd Latin.

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MolotovCocktail · 12/02/2013 17:06

Me: Latin
DH: Greek
DD1: Old English
DD2: Spanish

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alexpolismum · 12/02/2013 17:33

Me - Etruscan (apparently!)
DH Greek, but originally Hebrew and Aramaic
DS1 Byzantine Greek
DD Ancient Greek
DS2 Ancient Greek

Quite surprised by the Etruscan thing! Am of English/ Welsh heritage.

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Sashapineapple · 12/02/2013 20:01

Me: English
DH: English
DS: Scandinavian
DD: German

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33goingon64 · 12/02/2013 20:12

Me and DH: Ancient Greek
DS: Hebrew

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BlipbipBeep · 12/02/2013 20:17

I have a cornish name :)
DH and kids all Hebrew

We are British/Irish

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vitaminC · 12/02/2013 20:18

Mine and my three DDs' are all Latin names! Quite funny for a Jewish family, although we also have Hebrew names, just not on our birth certificates)!
Ex-dh and current SO's names both Greek.

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weegiemum · 12/02/2013 20:20

For our first/other names (surname is German)

Me: Hebrew/Greek
Dh: German/German
Dd1: Greek/Scots Gaelic
Ds: Irish/Latin/French
Dd2: Hebrew/Scottish

Our heritage is me: Scottish, dh Irish/German

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IzzyWizzyletsgetbusy · 12/02/2013 20:24

Me: French variant of a Hebrew name
DH: Hebrew
DS: Hebrew
DD1: French version of a Greek name
DD2: English version of a Greek name

Our middle names derive from Latin, Welsh, Greek, Greek/Hebrew and old English respectively.

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MrsHoarder · 12/02/2013 20:27

Me: Hebrew
DH: Hebrew
DS: Latin

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MildlyMiserable · 12/02/2013 20:30

Me: Greek
DS: Hebrew

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LoonyRationalist · 12/02/2013 20:32

Me. Hebrew
Dh. Latin
Dd1 greek
Dd2. French

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JiltedJohnsJulie · 12/02/2013 20:33

Me & DP both have Scottish names. Odd as neither are Scottish nor do we have any connections.
DS English
DD English/French

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ouryve · 12/02/2013 20:35

Mine is French
DH and the DSs all Gaelic. DH and DS1 have names which are different derivatives of the same older name.

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thegreylady · 12/02/2013 20:37

Me Latin
Dh Hebrew
Ds French
Dd Germanic [I think] it is Joanna

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