You could do Lafiel for a girl (Crest of the Stars/Banner of the Stars 1 & 2), and Ein (Cowboy Bebop/Dead or Alive fighting games: tecmo) for a boy.
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Pick my Baby's name.
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True, a lot (all?) of English names come from the names of an older language. A lot of them being Hebrew (or other Biblical) ones. It's still an English name though; it's been in the language long enough to earn its stripes
True, a lot (all?) of English names come from the names of an older language. A lot of them being Hebrew (or other Biblical) ones. It's still an English name though; it's been in the language long enough to earn its stripes
No, not really. Just when Europe was Christianized by the Roman Empire everyone started using Hebrew names. There are definitely actual "english" names out there.
England was Christianized and that shaped the culture and its language. The fact that certain names are older than others doesn't make them any more English with regards to the modern language. By your logic, "Giovanni" is not Italian, "Pierre" is not French, and "Jose" is not Spanish, because they are all biblical.
Except Adam is spelled the way it is because that's how the Hebrew spelling is pronounced. In Hebrew it's "ADM". Big difference between "Giovanni" and "John". Just saying man. Every name came from somewhere originally. Adam is Hebrew, not English. Most people in Christianized nations bear some form of a Hebrew name (or an adaptation of a Hebrew name). It's actually a very interesting language.
I understood what you meant and I think you understand what I meant. We all know it's originally Hebrew, but we can't deny that it has other spellings and pronunciations in other languages. Adamo is Italian, Adan in Spanish. So Adam as we spell and pronounce it is the English version, not Italian and not "American."
I'm just saying "Adam" is most definitely not an English name. Look it up. The Hebrew word/name is literally "ADAM". In Hebrew generally vowels are not spelled unless at the beginning of a word. ADM is said ADAM. YHWH=Yahweh, etc. That's all I'm saying. Adam is not English at all. Spreading disinformation is bad for everyone. 
My original post said "A lot (all?) of English names are transliterations of Hebrew names." Exactly what you describe in post 267
I couldn't think of any English names that didn't come from another language at the time I typed that. Can you give me some examples? Language interests me greatly, and you seem to know your stuff. So I'm not arguing. Would just like to know
slobake
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My original post said "A lot (all?) of English names are transliterations of Hebrew names." Exactly what you describe in post 267
Language interests me greatly, and you seem to know your stuff. So I'm not arguing. Would just like to know
This is what I get for posting from my phone and not paying attention to screen names. Haha. I just saw someone saying "Adam is an English name" and went off on a tangent.
And yeah, the closest I can think of is "Stuart" as it originated from old English. The others I thought could be English were Geoffrey and Barry. Geoffrey is pretty English but I looked it up and technically it was a name introduced by the Normans. Barry is another one, though technically it is Irish. I'm sure there's more out there. Lol.
Edit: also despite the lame rhyming factor, Kent and Trent are both English names as well.
slobake
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My neighbors name is Francios when we looked it up we found out it means free man from France. So by carrying this a little further San Francisco means Saint Free Man From France. It comes from the latin word Francis.
I have a feeling I will be wasting a lot of time playing around in this thread
Francesco is one of the many derivatives; it is actually of Latin Origin and was the name of the Franks - the Germanic tribe whom France was named after. It also could possibly have meant "free," though that part is unclear.
So in short...yes it means Frenchman, yes it means free, however its origin is not Italian
slobake
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I have a feeling I will be wasting a lot of time playing around in this thread
Francesco is one of the many derivatives; it is actually of Latin Origin and was the name of the Franks - the Germanic tribe whom France was named after. It also could possibly have meant "free," though that part is unclear.
So in short...yes it means Frenchman, yes it means free, however its origin is not Italian
Here are my sources:
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slobake did you mean to quote me or matante?
Just judging from what I've learned about languages in my spare time, Francesco being originally Italian just sounded a little bit fishy to me...what I dug up on the interwebz was about the same thing your sources are saying
Just judging from what I've learned about languages in my spare time, Francesco being originally Italian just sounded a little bit fishy to me...what I dug up on the interwebz was about the same thing your sources are saying
I have a feeling I will be wasting a lot of time playing around in this thread
Francesco is one of the many derivatives; it is actually of Latin Origin and was the name of the Franks - the Germanic tribe whom France was named after. It also could possibly have meant "free," though that part is unclear.
So in short...yes it means Frenchman, yes it means free, however its origin is not Italian
My understanding of the way the name Francisco entered Spanish is that they simply needed a way of saying Saint Francis, who was an Italian actually named Francesco. I studied Italian and my understanding was that at the time of Saint Francis' life and in his particular Italian dialect, Francesco meant Frenchman. The modern Italian word is Francese.
