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Okay, guys, for all of us here, I guess it should be mentioned that David means beloved. 
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. . . and "Hilary" means "cheerful" c.f. hilarious
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I just thought that I would let everyone know that I have finally found out the meaning of my true name of Pailani.
ngarza, ngarzu[PA.DINGIR]
custom(s); rite(s); divine or royal orders; can
describe an institutional
witness of a court decision (ngar, 'form,
appearance' or ngar, 'to
deliver', + zu, 'to know').
(ngish)pa
leaf, bud, sprout; branch; wing; feather [PA
archaic frequency: 378;
concatenation of 2 sign variants].
Ilani would mean 'my gods'.
So basically I am a bud, branch, feather etc of my gods. lol
Blessings all,
Rev. Alimae
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welcome back, Pa! how did you find out the new information?
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Etaoin,
Thank you for the welcome back, I so apologize for having been absent for such a long period of time. There have been several events with in my life of late.
In answer to your question of where I got the information on the meaning of my name.
After waiting for over a year for the universities and two study groups to get off of their proverbial back sides and actually do what they were telling me they had done and get back with me, I decided to see if I could find any information once again on the internet on my own, but this was all to no avail.
Then it dawned on me, why not contact the web-masters of say the Sumerian Lexicon and Dictionary?
Thus I did, speaking with John A. Halloran. With in a matter of minutes he responded to my query based upon my name. At first he thought it was a combination of Sumerian and what is known as Akkadian which corresponds to the Hebrew language, unfortunately he was looking at ilanu and not ilani which is Sumerian.
It was in a second e-mail following shortly on the heals of the first that I was given the meaning of ilani thus having the full meaning of my name for the first time in my life.
Blessings,
Alimae
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no apologies necessary, Alimae, I know all about life circumstances...
the web is a wonderful place.
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Just found this thread - thanks to Alimae. I'm also a "Helen" and found oftroy's opening ramble interesting. The middle name, Elizabeth, is apparently straight from the Hebrew "oath of God" or "consecrated to God".
No big revelations here.
My mother was originally going to name me "Bethel", but took pity on me because of my surname. As I have a minor lisp in any case, I'm really grateful she didn't put me through "Hi, I'm Bethel Creith, I'm thickth yearth old and I have a lithp, can you tell?"
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Lol Elisabeth,
That would have been painful, thank God for second guesses.
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>>The middle name, Elizabeth, is apparently straight from the Hebrew "oath of God" or "consecrated to God".<< Something niggled me, there: "beth," I seemed to me was bet or bayit, meaning "house" ( Bethlehem or Bethlechem meaning "house of bread.") Eli, I think, is "my God," (in the devout, not the expletive, sense). And the syllable "za" is unusual. It turns out, according to one Web site, that "Elizabeth" in an Anglicized version of the Hebrew "Elisheva." The same Web site says it means "God's oath," but, since (I think) Eli is genetive, *my* God, it seems more likely that it means just "consecrated to God." http://www.hebrewletters.com/item.cfm?itemid=2830
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divine or royal orders + witness of a court decision + So basically I am a bud, branch, feather etc of my gods.
I have a lovely mental image of you in a heavenly court, (the royal not legal variety) dressed in wonderful robes and signing documents with an ostrich plume pen.
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"Elizabeth" in an Anglicized version of the Hebrew "Elisheva."
cool! So I could have been "Sheva", or maybe "Sheba"?
I know Mom told me that Bethel means "House of God", so I'm not surprised to find that a "beth" name with no "house" word in it is not strictly from the Hebrew.
Thanks for this, IP
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Zed,
Thank you.
*blush*
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Glad to see you back again, Alimae. I hope we see a lot more of you on the board.
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"Laurence" means of or from laurel (the bay leaf tree). The derivative of my first name.
For this reason, I have always maintained that Laurence is correctly spelled with a 'u' and not a 'w' as is frequently seen.
Your thoughts?
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What on Earth?
Well I used that site to look up Roach(Which was going to be my user name but was taken)and got all sorts of definitions.
Like a native american hairdo,or some nautical term.But I finally found what it was supposed to mean-and an insulting definition.
roach
NOUN: Inflected forms: pl. roach·es
1. The cockroach. 2. Slang The butt of a marijuana cigarette.
Ok, It was supposed to mean cockroach. But I am NOT a cigarrette,and I am NOT illegal!
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Welcome, Ms de Caffeine - may I say what a delightfully bright and unusual colour yellow you have chosen for your blog background? :) By the way, seeing your interest in Latin and spelling, are you aware of the great resource at Bartleby, where you can often find the family resemblances between Romance languages that derive from Latin - for example, common words we take for granted like cigarette? http://www.bartleby.com/61/46/C0354600.html
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Welcome to the madhouse Rainmaker and Roachie. Please do stick around!
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And welcome back yourown sweet self, cinnamon queen - didja get another compouter(sic) or fix the bug?
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Turns out it was Norton Personal Security that was keeping me from posting. A special thanks to Anu and the webmaster at wordsmith for pointing me in the right direction. [tiphat-e]
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What if I said my name was Antwan? Of course it's a phonetic variation of "Antoine". And how does that happen again? Did you "axe" the right person how it was spelled? Edward MacNeal would say that it comes from the Black English Vernacular (BEV). I think so too. I recall a reference to the name in Pulp Fiction: VINCENT: What do you think about what happened to Antwan?
MIA: Who's Antwan? ... What does it mean?
BUTCH: I'm an American, our names don't mean sh*t. ...
Behind the Name http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=anthonyhas enlightened us that it ultimately comes from the Italian name "Antonius":
From the Roman family name Antonius, which is of unknown Etruscan origin. It is sometimes claimed to mean "flower" from Greek ανθος (anthos). Mark Antony (Marcus Antonius) was the Roman general who ruled the Roman empire jointly with Augustus for a short time. Their relationship turned sour however, and he and his mistress Cleopatra were attacked and forced to commit suicide. Shakespeare's tragedy 'Antony and Cleopatra' is based on them. Other famous bearers include the 3rd-century Saint Anthony the Abbot, a hermit from Egypt who founded monasticism, and the 13th-century Saint Anthony of Padua, the patron saint of Portugal.I'm just sayin'... "Eventually, everything connects." ~ Charles Eames
"Eventually, everything connects."
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