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My name is reyniel I searched for the meaning of my name and this is what I found rey comes from spanish word which means king and niel derived from danish word neil which means compassion of you put it together reyniel means king of compassion or a compassionate king...which kind of suits me.. :-)
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Man, I'm nothing like that so not fair
and i Porto Rican
and i Porto Rican
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Same
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I'm with Sabertooth on this one; probably a form of Renier.
Can you give a reliable reference for a Danish word looking like Neil and meaning Compassion? It would also be interesting to know how a Spanish and a Danish element got joined up to make Reyniel; I imagine you are neither Spanish nor Danish?
Can you give a reliable reference for a Danish word looking like Neil and meaning Compassion? It would also be interesting to know how a Spanish and a Danish element got joined up to make Reyniel; I imagine you are neither Spanish nor Danish?
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I'd agree, although there are numerous other dithematic names with the same first element (ragin- which I would say means "power/might/rule rather than "advice" — it's a Germanic correspondent (Pokorny postulates a different root meaning "order") of Celtic Rix, Latin Rex "king/ruler" and regnum "(royal) power, rule" to which the semantic similarity is extremely suspicious and implies the Germanic word was borrowed from Latin or a related (Northern Italic) language or dialect. The wiktionary etymology is contrary to almost all the recorded semantic meanings, and the sense of "advice" unique to Gothic can be easily understood as a derived meaning from the primary of "rule, order") which could also qualify if considered a diminutive.
This message was edited 1/24/2020, 6:41 PM
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