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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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