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Help[Facts] Meaning & spelling of name Haneli/Hanli/Hunli/Hanelee/Hunlee
I am looking for the name Haneli/Hanli/Hunli/Hanelie/Hanelee/Hunlee. It is used in South Africa, and is pronouced Hunlee/Hunalee.
If anyone can tell me the correct spelling and meaning I would apprecitate it.
Thanks!
If anyone can tell me the correct spelling and meaning I would apprecitate it.
Thanks!
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Hannalie, Hannelie or Hanlie are all possible; I haven't seen your other suggestions but except for the ones with a -u- and a double -ee they could happen. (The -u- spelling couldn't for phonetic reasons. You probably heard the name, and the Afrikaan,s a sounds pretty much like the short English u; however, the Afrikaans u is different and wouldn't work. The double vowel ee, like all double vowels in Afrikaans, is a diphthong - the vowel sound, long, ending with a schwa or neutral vowel.) The -ie ending is more Afrikaans, the -i more German or international-trendy: both would sound the same and could be used.
It's a blended name, and an exact duplicate of Annelie: Anne or Anna or Hanna (the usual spelling in Afrikaans, rather than Hannah, and this is an Afrikaans name) plus Elizabeth.
There used to be a very strong tradition of naming children after their grandparents: this is fading now, but it used to result in whole batches of cousins having identical names. Blending names was a way around this problem: you still honoured your grandparents, but gave your child something different from her/his relations.
This practice was mostly a girl-naming activity, though I do know a man named Andries Petrus who is always known as Rusandre.
It's a blended name, and an exact duplicate of Annelie: Anne or Anna or Hanna (the usual spelling in Afrikaans, rather than Hannah, and this is an Afrikaans name) plus Elizabeth.
There used to be a very strong tradition of naming children after their grandparents: this is fading now, but it used to result in whole batches of cousins having identical names. Blending names was a way around this problem: you still honoured your grandparents, but gave your child something different from her/his relations.
This practice was mostly a girl-naming activity, though I do know a man named Andries Petrus who is always known as Rusandre.
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Really? One of those three would have been my guess if the name's Afrikaans origin had been confirmed :)
This message was edited 7/2/2010, 12:50 AM
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As South Africa is a multicutural society it would be helpful if you had some information about who is usually named this. Is it commonly used by English-speaking South Africans? Or by Afrikaans-speaking South Africans? Or by South Africans who speak a Bantu language (like Zulu or Xhosa)?
Is the name masculine or feminine?
Is the name masculine or feminine?
This message was edited 7/2/2010, 12:51 AM
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