Re: Names - a plea

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 21:51:18 -0600 Eric Christopherson
<raccoon@...> writes:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 12:08:35AM +0100, daniel andreasson wrote:
> > Hey! I didn't think I could be in since the originator is
> > a Daniel as well. Middle names, good thinking! My middle
> > name is Erik. The prefix _e-_ means 'alone, lonely, sole'
> > and _rik_ is 'ruler, master'. You do the maths. :)
> >
> > Daniel Erik Andreasson
> I like to use "eternal ruler" for my first name, but it could also
> be "one
> ruler" (i.e. alone, sole, as Daniel said), and I believe I saw it
> once given
> as "honored ruler." My middle name is Allen, whose meaning I do not
> know,
> and my last name has pretty much already been translated (in the
> guise of
> Christophe).
>
> --
> Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo
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I seem to remember that the Name Dictionary that me and my brother looked
at when we were little said that _Alan_ is something (Gaelic?) for
"handsome".


-Stephen (Steg)
 "Word making is world making."
     ~ _The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis_
          by Avivah Zornberg