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[Aristharus]

Originally posted by Nick+Aug 29 2005, 10:36 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Nick @ Aug 29 2005, 10:36 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin-Aristharus@Aug 29 2005, 08:14 PM
...Tapio, which is a Finnish god of the forest...

I heard of it from Nightwish song Elvenpath! But I thought, that it is kinda fantasy person (there is stream of names in verses, if you listen). Although, gods ARE fantasy persons, from Christian point of view. [/b][/quote]
I know the song, even though I don't like Nightwish much. I think there's only one other name in the song which is Mielikki, which is also an ancient finnish god (or goddess in this case). I think she's Tapio's wife in the mythology. Sorry, going off topic in a way.

My second name is Johannes, which I assume comes from the latin name Ioannes thus being the equivalent of John in English. For example in Finnish the late pope John Paul's name was Johannes Paavali II and in The Bible all Johns are also Johannes'. My surname doesn't mean anything as far as I know.

EDIT: And yeah, I have no idea what Ioannes stands for in Latin, so I have no idea what Johannes means. Does anyone know?

YET ANOTHER EDIT: Ok, it seems that Ioannes is greek, not latin even though all the popes called John are officially called Ioannes. The latin equivalent is the same as in Finnish: Johannes and it comes from the Hebrew name Yochanan meaning "Yahweh is gracious".

[Chuck the plant]

Sebastian comes from the greek "sebastos" - "the venerable". Very fitting indeed.

[a1s]

Originally posted by peregy@Aug 29 2005, 09:53 PM
My name is Oskar(Oscar) and i really don't know what it means :whistle:* *

well as far as I know oscar means deer... lover , from ancient gaelic . or possibly "spear of god", from ancient english (but probaly not)

[Dino]

My real name is Dino and I don't know what it means. It's Italian name (I'm Croatian), and that hits the spot because I just adore Italian cuisine.

[efthimios]

Hmm, perhaps Dino comes from Constantine. In Greece guys with the name Dino usualy are named Constantine.

[Chuck the plant]

Well, since Dino happens to be my second name (my mother is a huge Dean Martin-Fan... but the registrar got it wrong :[img]http://www.abandonia.com/forum/html/emoticons/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /> ): It derives from the greek "deinos", meaning "terryfying" or "tremendous"... put that together with my first name and you know it couldn't get more fitting than that :bleh:

[taikara]

My real name is Monica, and it's from a Latin root that means counsellor/priestess.

[Abi79]

Originally posted by TheVoid@Aug 30 2005, 01:24 AM
My name, Alberto

Well, my name is *tadaaam* Albert , but friends call me Abi hence my nickname. I only added the 79 because on Miniclip I wanted to register to play a game, but couldn't register with Abi so I added randomly a number: 79 =>Abi79

[DeathDude]

Well my real name is Ernest which apparently means "Serious; determined; sincere." uh yeah apparently :whistle: but also get called Ernie occasionly by friends and at work it's been starting to happen there for some reason I have no clue, as well get called Ernesto by my mom's family since that's how my name would be if I lived down in a spanish speaking country (And I got called Ernesto as well in my spanish speaking classes since High School)

Nickname uh well thinking up name for use in a game online and well this one came to mind for some reason, uh yeah. :bleh:

[Apocalypse Dude]

My real name is Jaap which comes from Jacob. Which means, "He who takes his brother's place"...