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Cully - it's the name of Tom Barnaby's daughter in the Brittish TV series Midsomer Murders. Can it have something to do with the Scottish word cailidh, sanctuary?
Veiron and Beiron - pr. VAY-ron and BAY-ron, these are two male names that are very rare in Sweden, but they seem to come from the west coast, where there has been English and Scottish influences.
Armendria, Mene, Keda, Ado (m) and Pandita - found in a book about children growing up in a sect. They might be Biblical.
Come and see the new Communist musical - Fidel on the Roof
Veiron and Beiron - pr. VAY-ron and BAY-ron, these are two male names that are very rare in Sweden, but they seem to come from the west coast, where there has been English and Scottish influences.
Armendria, Mene, Keda, Ado (m) and Pandita - found in a book about children growing up in a sect. They might be Biblical.
Come and see the new Communist musical - Fidel on the Roof
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Thainks for your answers! :)
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Cully...
I found this on http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Satellite/9476/news.htm:
''Cully's name
John (Nettles) has also jokingly reiterated the story of how Cully hot her name.
In our younger days we spent our honeymoon in a place called Cully by Lake Geneva and it was there that Cully was conceived – and it was in relation to that experience that she got her name.''
I checked and there is a town named Cully in Switzerland
(abot Cully:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://kapellos.com/images/cully.gif&imgrefurl=http://kapellos.com/info_en.html&h=525&w=910&sz=150&hl=hr&start=7&um=1&tbnid=LwurSzAUbFrZDM:&tbnh=85&tbnw=147&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcully%2Blake%2Bgeneva%2Bmap%26um%3D1%26hl%3Dhr%26lr%3D).
I found this on http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Satellite/9476/news.htm:
''Cully's name
John (Nettles) has also jokingly reiterated the story of how Cully hot her name.
In our younger days we spent our honeymoon in a place called Cully by Lake Geneva and it was there that Cully was conceived – and it was in relation to that experience that she got her name.''
I checked and there is a town named Cully in Switzerland
(abot Cully:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://kapellos.com/images/cully.gif&imgrefurl=http://kapellos.com/info_en.html&h=525&w=910&sz=150&hl=hr&start=7&um=1&tbnid=LwurSzAUbFrZDM:&tbnh=85&tbnw=147&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcully%2Blake%2Bgeneva%2Bmap%26um%3D1%26hl%3Dhr%26lr%3D).
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I don't know if Armendria has any connection, but the Spanish name Armendari is quite similar. from American Family Name Origins, by Oxford University Press:
Armendariz
Frequency: (1258)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Spanish (Armendáriz; of Basque origin): patronymic from the Basque personal name Armendari or Armentari, from Latin armentarius ‘herdsman’.
2. Spanish and French variant of Armendaritze, a habitational name from a village in Low Navarre named Armendaritze. The place name is commonly said to be composed of the elements ar(ri) ‘rock’+ mend(i) ‘mountain’ + aritz ‘oak’. However, this is probably a folk etymology; the place name is more likely the same as the patronymic surname, except that -itz here is to be interpreted as a locative suffix: ‘Armendari's place’ or perhaps ‘herdsman's place’.
Armendariz
Frequency: (1258)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Spanish (Armendáriz; of Basque origin): patronymic from the Basque personal name Armendari or Armentari, from Latin armentarius ‘herdsman’.
2. Spanish and French variant of Armendaritze, a habitational name from a village in Low Navarre named Armendaritze. The place name is commonly said to be composed of the elements ar(ri) ‘rock’+ mend(i) ‘mountain’ + aritz ‘oak’. However, this is probably a folk etymology; the place name is more likely the same as the patronymic surname, except that -itz here is to be interpreted as a locative suffix: ‘Armendari's place’ or perhaps ‘herdsman's place’.
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None of the names from the book are found in English language Bibles as names, though perhaps they occur in translations of the Bible into other languages.
"Mene" occurs as a word in the fifth chapter of the Book of Daniel, where Daniel is asked to interpret the meaning of words that have been written on the plaster of a wall in the king's palace by a disembodied hand. Here are verses 24-29, where the word occurs:
24 "So from his presence the hand was sent and this writing was inscribed. 25 And this is the writing that was inscribed: mene, mene, tekel, and parsin. 26 This is the interpretation of the matter: mene, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; 27 tekel, you have been weighed on the scales and found wanting; 28 peres, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians." 29 Then Belshazzar gave the command, and Daniel was clothed in purple, a chain of gold was put around his neck, and a proclamation was made concerning him that he should rank third in the kingdom.
"Mene" occurs as a word in the fifth chapter of the Book of Daniel, where Daniel is asked to interpret the meaning of words that have been written on the plaster of a wall in the king's palace by a disembodied hand. Here are verses 24-29, where the word occurs:
24 "So from his presence the hand was sent and this writing was inscribed. 25 And this is the writing that was inscribed: mene, mene, tekel, and parsin. 26 This is the interpretation of the matter: mene, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; 27 tekel, you have been weighed on the scales and found wanting; 28 peres, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians." 29 Then Belshazzar gave the command, and Daniel was clothed in purple, a chain of gold was put around his neck, and a proclamation was made concerning him that he should rank third in the kingdom.
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