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ah well. though, seems as if linguistically you might wordize it however you'd like... 
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Ok, in my opinion this site is almost freaky. At the moment I am not entirely sure what I should be thinking.
Thank you for the information and the link.
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...this site is almost freaky..."Almost"? Then I must be slacking... ...I mean, we are *in "Wordplay and Fun". 
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You do have a good point, but it was weird seeing a bust made thousands of years ago that has such an uncanny resemblance to me.
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don't mind him, that's our Morey...
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Sallyheh. nope, I would be that other handsome guy in the pic...
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ah well. though, seems as if linguistically you might wordize it however you'd like...
This is very true especially considering the various ways of spelling different names. My questions though is when you have different cultures whom, to my knowledge, and please feel free to correct me if I err on this part, are thousands of miles apart, do not have any communications between them and have names that are similar yet with distinctly different meanings, how can we say that they are the same?
I mean, if I were to say that my name “Pailani” is a bastardization of Paloni, then I would be able to say that the connotations imply that the meaning is of a goddess of the sea, yet that would be a lie due to the fact that the two societies, Sumeria and Hawaii do not have any connections.
Now it is more likely that the Indian name of “Pilani” could be closer due to the regional area that it is located in as well as the proximity to the old Sumerian empire. Yet it could be distinctly different as well.
Thus the reason for my attempt to ascertain the exact meaning of my name, so that there will be no confusion or questionable doubt as to its intended allusion.
In closing, may I ask what does “Wordize” mean? I believe I understand what you are portraying, I am just curious as to the definition of the word for it is one I have never come across before.
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well, it sounds pretty much like the Sumerian derivation is the correct one. have you found the two words with which your name was made? Pai and Lani? or Pail and Ani? etc.? the Hawai'ian thing just sounds(!) like one of those coincidences of language. as for wordize... we recently had a thread about izing everything. figured it fit well here. I think that with the fluidity of language, especially these days, and the cross culturality of the internet, we have almost reached a moment where words can mean what we wish them to be. a chaotic bifurcative experience sits waiting for the right impetus... your name, can mean what you want it to mean; informed by its parts and history, but wholly you. thanks for making me think about this...
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The newcomers, who became known as Sumerians, spoke an agglutinative language unrelated apparently to any other known language.
Just to be pedantic, they are no records of any languages related to Sumerian. But since Sumerian is Earth's oldest recorded language (may have tied with Chinese, but all the evidence is not in yet), we don't really know if Sumerian was an isolate or not. We don't know what the Ubaidians called themselves (their name comes from a placename) or what language they spoke.
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