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Almachtigheid wrote:How do you guys all know so many names? I have never thought of what names I like the most.
If there's any name I really like it would be Matthijs, which is my brother's name. In can also be spelled like Mathijs, and I have also seen Matijs once. (It's a Dutch name, and google translate pronounces it quite properly)
Also, the names Florine (FLO-REEH-NEH) or Jasmijn (Dutch name, google translate will do here as well for the pronounciation) for girls are quite nice.
And of all of the names above I also think Rivka is a very nice name (Probably the best one I have ever heard!)
Shiba wrote:I can't seem to think of many non-Germanic names today.
René isn't Germanic. It's from the Latin Renatus.linguoboy wrote:With the exception of René, all of those names are non-Germanic.
Lazar Taxon wrote:René isn't Germanic. It's from the Latin Renatus.linguoboy wrote:With the exception of René, all of those names are non-Germanic.
linguoboy wrote:Shiba wrote:I can't seem to think of many non-Germanic names today.
With the exception of René, all of those names are non-Germanic.
Varislintu wrote:And let's just avoid the whole last name issue. Finnish law only allows one last name, so it'll be either or. And all consecutive children must have the same one.
Lur wrote:But Franziska would ultimately come from the name of the Franks and isn't Amelia a Germanic root?
Lur wrote:Hans isn't Germanic? I didn't know that.
linguoboy wrote:Lur wrote:But Franziska would ultimately come from the name of the Franks and isn't Amelia a Germanic root?
Amelia is kind of odd. Supposedly it does derive from Germanic amal, but AFAIK there are no native Germanic names of the form root + -ia.
Shiba wrote:linguoboy wrote:Lur wrote:But Franziska would ultimately come from the name of the Franks and isn't Amelia a Germanic root?
Amelia is kind of odd. Supposedly it does derive from Germanic amal, but AFAIK there are no native Germanic names of the form root + -ia.
According to Behind the Name, it's the "Latinized form of the Germanic name Amala, a short form of names beginning with the element amal meaning "work"."
Shiba wrote:Why do you say that? I'd seriously like to know, I'm not looking for an argument.
Shiba wrote:Also, there doesn't seem to be anything impossible about their etymology of the name "Amelia".
linguoboy wrote:It's hard to think of Franziska as a "Germanic name" when it's only the Germanised spelling of a Latinised form of a Germanic word. (The normal German development is Fränkische, which is never used as a personal name.) But I'll grant you that one.
Johanna wrote:linguoboy wrote:It's hard to think of Franziska as a "Germanic name" when it's only the Germanised spelling of a Latinised form of a Germanic word. (The normal German development is Fränkische, which is never used as a personal name.) But I'll grant you that one.
And Franka isn't at all related to that? Or is that a shortening of Franziska?
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