…and I need a break from this blog. The truth is, this blog takes up time and energy which I don’t have much at the moment. I’m tired, I want to recharge, and I want to create a decent amount of buffer before beginning to post again. I’ve also been rewriting some of my older…
Month: July 2020
Sananda
Sananda comes from a Sanskrit word meaning “happy, delighted” or “with joy, with happiness”. The second element is made up of Sanskrit nanda नन्द् (rejoice, delight, joy) while the first element sā सा “with, like”. From what I could find, Sananda is used as a unisex name in India though overwhelmingly more for females than…
Ashwin
Ashwin is a Hindi male name meaning derived from Sanskrit áśva अश्व (horse, stallion) so the name essentially means “possessed of horses” or “horse possessors”. In Hindu mythology, the Ashwins (also known as the Ashvins) are twin brothers, the sons of the sun god Surya; they are associated with the dawn and depicted as young…
Murasaki
Murasaki will probably be familiar to many as the author of the Tale of Genji, often considered to be the first world’s first novel written in eleventh century Japan (though there’s debate on that); Murasaki Shikibu was a court lady who wrote Tale of Genji over several years though it wasn’t her real name, with…
Murad
Murad is an Arabic male name meaning “desired, wished for” or “desire, wish”, and is also an Arabic surname originating from the given name. Origin: Arabic Meaning: “wished for, desired” or “wish, desire” Usage: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Urdu, Avar, Indian Variants: Mourad (Arabic) Morad (Arabic, Persian) Mrad (Arabic) Murat (Turkish, Bosnian) Marat (Tatar)
Anemone
Anemone (pr. a-nem-o-nee; Forvo) is the name of a genus of flowering plants, also known as the windflower, apparently because it opens up when the wind blows. It’s made up of Ancient Greek anemos (wind) via PIE *h₂enh₁- (to breathe) combined with the feminine patronymic suffix -ṓnē, so the name essentially means “daughter of the…
Narcissus
Narcissus is the Latinized form of Narkissos, the name of a beautiful youth in Greek mythology. He had many admirers, among them the nymph Echo, but he was so proud and arrogant that he spurned them all. He was eventually cursed by falling in love with his own reflection and eventually wasting away (or in…
Pink
Pink is the name of a light-reddish color which seems to derive its name from the group of flowers in the genus Dianthus (which the carnation belongs to); the origin of the word derives from an unknown origin though it may be derived from Dutch pincken (to blink, wink), which itself is of unknown origin….
Barton
Barton is an English surname, a locational name for someone who originally came from a place called Barton. It’s made up of Old English elements bere (barley) and tūn (enclosure, settlement, town), both deriving from a PIE origin. Barton is also a German, Czech, and Slovak surname, originally a pet-form of Bartolomaeus (Bartholomew), the Greek…
Eugenie
Eugenie is the English and German form of Eugénie, itself the French form of Ancient Greek Eugenia, the feminine form of Eugenios meaning “well-born” via Greek word eugenés εὐγενής “noble, aristocratic; polite” composed of Ancient Greek elements eû εὖ (well) <PIE root *h₁es- (to be), and génos γένος (born) <PIE *ǵénh₁os (race, lineage). Origin: Proto-Indo-European Meaning: “well-born” Usage: English, German, French Variants: Male forms:
Monroe
Monroe comes from a Scottish surname, a topographical name meaning “mouth of the Roe”, referring to the River Roe in Ireland; Roe itself is of uncertain origin though it may possibly be derived from Irish rua meaning “red” Origin: Proto-Indo-European Meaning: “mouth of the Roe”, a topographical name for someone who originally lived at the…
Coco
Coco is often used as a nickname for both sexes though popularly more for women than men. The nickname doesn’t necessarily have to do with the given name; Coco Chanel, the most popular person with the name, was born Gabrielle, having received her nickname from a song she used to sing. Coco could also be…
Bright
Bright is an English word referring to something or someone dazzling, shining, luminescent, or brilliant, or someone who is intelligent, and it could be used to refer to something or someone full of promise and hope (i.e. they have a bright future ahead of them). The word derives from Old English bryht via Proto-Germanic *berhtaz…
Faith
Faith is a female given name derived from the English word referring to a “confidence or trust in a person or thing”, a “belief in something not proven”, as well as a belief in a religious or spiritual system. It comes from Middle English feith, fayth (faith) borrowed from Old French fay, fei via Latin…