Re: Names - a plea

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 16:52:49 -0000, Dan Jones <feuchard@...> wrote:

>If you know your name's etymology, tell me, and I can do you
>a Rhêndrin name, thus helping me create more roots. Maybe we could do a big
>name translation thing?
Vasiliy < Greek _Basileios_ - adj. 'royal' or 'king-like' (derived from
_basileus_ 'king', which seems to have no obvious etymology)

Chernov < the stem of Rus. _chernyj_ 'black' + a possessive/patronymic
suffix; 'a/the black one's (descendant)'. The family legend says that
one of the ancestors was a Gypsie man.


Basilius