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Post by Pheobe Halliwell Turner on Dec 1, 2006 17:54:40 GMT
The meaning of my daugthers' names::
ISOLDE Gender: Feminine Usage: English, German, Celtic Mythology Pronounced: i-ZOL-de (English), i-SOL-de (English), ee-ZAWL-du (German) [key] Possibly derived from a Welsh root meaning "beautiful". In Celtic legend she was an Irish princess betrothed to King Mark of Cornwall. She became the lover of his knight Tristan, which led to their tragic deaths.
HEULWEN Gender: Feminine Usage: Welsh Means "sunshine" in Welsh.
WARREN Gender: Masculine Usage: English Pronounced: WAWR-en [key] From a surname which meant either "enclosure" from Germanic or "from La Varenne" from French. **Named for the Warren line of witches**
EMILY Gender: Feminine Usage: English Pronounced: EM-i-lee [key] Medieval feminine form of Aemilius (see EMIL). The British writer Emily Bronte, author of 'Wuthering Heights', and the American poet Emily Dickinson are two famous bearers of this name.
MAIRWEN Gender: Feminine Usage: Welsh Combination of MAIR and Welsh gwen meaning "white, fair, blessed."
ELISABETH Gender: Feminine Usage: English, German, French, Scandinavian, Biblical (Variant) Pronounced: ee-LIZ-a-beth (English), e-LEE-zah-bet (German), e-lee-za-BET (French) [key] Variant English form of ELIZABETH, as well as the German and French normal form, reflecting the spelling used in the Authorized Version of the New Testament.
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Post by Pheobe Halliwell Turner on Dec 1, 2006 20:28:39 GMT
PRUDENCE Gender: Feminine Usage: English Pronounced: PROO-dents Medieval form of Prudentia, a feminine form of PRUDENTIUS. The name can also simply be from the English word, ultimately of the same source.
PIPER Gender: Masculine & Feminine Usage: English Pronounced: PIE-pur From a surname which was originally given to a person who played on a pipe (a flute).
PHEOBE Gender: Feminine Usage: English, Greek Mythology (Latinized), Biblical Pronounced: FEE-bee Latinized form of the Greek name, Phoibe, which meant "bright, pure" from Greek, phoibos. In Greek mythology Phoibe was a Titan associated with the moon. This was also an epithet of her granddaughter, the moon goddess Artemis. A moon of Saturn bears this name in honour of the Titan. This name also appears in Paul's epistle to the Romans in the New Testament, where it belongs to a female minister in the church at Cenchreae.
PAIGE Gender: Feminine Usage: English Pronounced: PAYJ From an Old French surname which originally denoted a person who was a page to a lord.
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