Does your name symbolize you

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Obviously Sarcasm.Nu - Romance Languages are a branch of it's own. Ask a linguistic.

You are truly at odds with convention, with your ideas on what "Latin" and "Romance" are. And you keep raising the subject. It's baffling.

I just looked up my name again.. and the german way to say it isSHTE-fah-nee (German) My grandma calls me that all the time never with a ST.. but a SHHHTe.. i was always like wtf?My middle name means youthful My last name means having a dark complexion? lol

Ok so how do you check what your last name means?

Edward:Means "rich guard", derived from the Old English elements ead "rich, blessed" and weard "guard". Saint Edward the Confessor was the king of England shortly before the Norman Conquest. Because of his popularity this name remained in use after the conquest (most other Old English names were replaced by Norman ones), and was even the name of eight subsequent kings of England. Edward is also one of the few Old English names to be used throughout Europe.

Ok so how do you check what your last name means?If you know what language it comes from, that would be a start.Names like Smith, Cooper, Boatwright, etc. are pretty obvious.

yeaah thats just it i dont really know though it sounds kinda german or something like it and theres also supposed to be two variations

My first name:
CHANCE
Gender: Feminine & Masculine

Usage: English

Pronounced: CHANTS [key]

Means simply "chance" from the English word. It is ultimately derived from Latin cadens "falling".

I hope to shit I dont follow along those lines, Im a mountaineer, an ice climbre and a rock climber and have spent many many hours underground in caves and tunnels. falling is everything Im against. another site lits my name as meaning good fortune. Im good ina poker game, does that mean Im living up to my name?
My middle name (also happens to be my second sons first name) means success
my last name means bust your ass work hard for little pay and be a peon while the king has peasants shovel thier shit to your house instead of his own. (sorry, watch alot of discovery channel, saw a special last ngiht on the history of plumbing)
Course my last name istn as common for a working bastard as smith, but its inteh same working class.

Originally Posted By: albeitmyselfI am a linguist.really?Im a cunning linguist myself.

ok according to "houseofnames.com" the one we use is scottish, "The kyes surname is thought to have emerged from several different sources. In Northern England and Scotland, it come for the Old Norse "ka," which meant "jackdaw". It also came from the Breton and Old Welsh word "Cai," and the cornish word "Key," both of which meant "wharf." And, in some instances, this surname is no doubt derived from the Old English "Coeg," which meant "key".Spelling variations of this family name include: Kay,Kaye and others.First found in Yorkshire where they were seated from very ancient times, some say well before the Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William at Hastings in 1066 A.D.Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were:James Kay, who arrived in Virginia in 1677; Edward Kaye, who received a land grant in Virginia in 1724; Brian Kay, who settled in Fort Cumberland Nova Scotia with his wife, Dorothy, his brother Robert and five children in 1774" so it either means "black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery", "wharf" or "key"and the other might not be a variation but its supposed to be dutch there wasnt much there, first name is supposed to mean "The boy's name Daniel \d(a)-niel\ is pronounced DAN-yel. It is of Hebrew origin, and its meaning is "God is my judge". Biblical: the prophet and writer of the book of Daniel was a teenager when he was taken to Babylon after the destruction of Jerusalem in 607 BC. He survived a politically motivated death sentence in a lions' den. Many prominent men have had the name since, among them statesman Daniel Webster and frontiersman Daniel Boone. Danilo is a Spanish form; Dantrell is a contemporary blended variant. Novelist Daniel Defoe; entertainers Danny Thomas, Danny Kaye; Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan; actors Daniel Day-Lewis, Danny DeVito, Danny Aiello, Daniel Radcliffe."and middle name is supposed to mean "mountain"

Pinkranger: Well, your name comes from a Greek word, which means crowned, indeed. so you can use the nice and light 'ST' instead of the thick 'SHHHHTe' Germans have.

My name means 'bright'. I don't know if it truly represents me, but I don't mind that much. My last name states my great great grandfather's name and work :P

Peter means Rock/Stone. Symbolize me? Yeah whatever... I guess it can also mean "dick"... I can be a dick sometimes HAHAHAAAMy last name comes from my Great grandfathers first name. It was Serbian tradition that the son (at some point.. don't know when) would take the fathers first name (perhaps truncate it) and add "ic(h)" or "vic(h)" to the end. The end meaning would be "son of "name". So, for example, if my son were to take my name Peter (Petar in Serbian).. his last name would be Petrovic or Petric.. This is quite typical of many Slavic names.. another example would be of the infamous Slobodan Milos(h)evic.. his means Son of Milos(h).This tradition ended somewhere in the 1800's and I think coincided with independence from the Ottoman Turks. I think the tradition came about becasue a name change would make it harder for blood vengance from the Turks. For example, if I killed a Turk.. I might not be killed but perhaps some time later my son would.. thus a change in name would make it harder to exact vengence on my kin.My Granfather changed his last name although his brothers didn't. No one knows why. But he was born and lived in an area of Serbia that was still occupied by Turks until 1912-13... Hmm Maybe I should change my name...

All that was pretty interesting. I wish my name was a part of some tradition.

i googled mine.

My name is a common English/Spanish/Portuguese/German word. It's also the name of a body part (no, not that one), so it's hard to find anything on Google about it.

"Oooh. Remember the singer Dido? I wonder what her parents were thinking. "I think they just couldn't spellThere's supposed to be an "l" in the middle

My surname according to houseofnames.com :First found in Austria, where the name was closely identified in early mediaeval times with feudal society, which would become prominent throughout European history.Some of the first settlers of this family named, or some of it variants were: Peter *****, who came to Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1683; and Dirk ****, who arrived there in 1691. They were followed by Georg Friedrich **** and Johann ****, who came in 1709-10. Jerick **** came to Philadelphia in 1740.

All I know is SOMEONE was gonna say it, may as well of been me

apparently mine means lamb, or lamb of god. hebrew. yeah.

My name is hebrew, and apparently means 'innocent lamb', lol! My parents put up with a lot of crap over giving their three catholic daughters hebrew names; that was unheard of in 1970's Ireland.