[Facts] Re: Middle Name - Lamar
in reply to a message by Andy
no, i can't either, i already checked my dictionary, and at first i thought it was a mistake, but so many sites say it's an Old German name meaning 'land', that i assume it must be right.But...i've checked the site of the Meertens Instituut about Dutch firstnames and i've looked at Lammert, which is a variant of Lambert and i found that this name consists of land- and -bert , meaning 'shining (of the) land'. Well, this makes sense now that i come to think of it. I recently looked up a surname for someone (the name Sambad). And i found out then that Samberg is a variant of Sandberg and that Sambach is a variant of Sandbach. Apparently, the -nd- placed before a b can change in -m- . Thus, Lamar was originally Landar or Landmar. This would mean that the meaning of the name is incomplete and should be 'famous land', because the rootform -mar (as in Dietmar) means 'famous'. Or maybe Landar is just a variant of Land and the suffix -ar is maybe meaningless. Does this make more sense?
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Middle Name - Lamar  ·  Garry McDonall  ·  9/30/2004, 4:20 PM
Re: Middle Name - Lamar  ·  Menke  ·  10/1/2004, 2:40 PM
Re: Middle Name - Lamar  ·  Andy  ·  10/1/2004, 11:05 PM
Re: Middle Name - Lamar  ·  Menke  ·  10/2/2004, 3:00 AM
Thank you, Menke! This makes sense! nt  ·  Andy  ·  10/2/2004, 4:26 AM
an extra note...  ·  Menke  ·  10/2/2004, 3:03 AM