Message: "what name 'MOUSSAMBANI' means?"

what name 'MOUSSAMBANI' means?

by Jhon (guest)

10/14/2015, 11:29 AM

once, i found the
special name 'MOUSSAMBANI' for
'Eric Moussambani', who was
from Equatorial Guinea and
he won 100m freestyle in swimming
at 2000 Summer Olympics.

i thought that name is
The SURNAME means something
but it was not because
it had other name for surname, 'Malonga'.
so he's full name is
'Eric Moussambani Malonga'.

i think this 'MOUSSAMBANI' is
probably GIVEN NAME,
so, i want to know
that name's meaning for
GIVEN NAME, not a surname.

does anybody know
what is 'MOUSSAMBANI' s
real origin and meaning
and respond this question, please?

(P.S and Equatorial Guinea uses
Spanish, French, Portuguese and
they use for regional languages are
Fang, Bube, Igbo, Pidgin English and Annobonese...

probably, In one of these languages
will be the origin of this name..)

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- Sabertooth +2

10/14/2015, 3:13 PM

I look forward to a more-informed opinion, but my SWAG would be "from Mozambique" or similar.

- Jhon (guest) +1

10/15/2015, 9:36 PM

thanks for the answer
what name 'MOUSSAMBANI' means,
but i think you forgot explained what
this 'MOUSSAMBANI''s ORIGIN....

so...
Could you explain more information about
what this name's REAL ORIGIN, please?
(sorry for my poor english...)

- Sabertooth

10/15/2015, 11:07 PM

Since mine was an unconfirmed, educated guess, I can't give you a definitive answer (as to its origin).

The connection that I noticed was the |-ANI| ending is a Latinate plural form of |-AN|, "person of or from [base name]." That would make MOUSSAMB- to be the base name in question. I noticed a similarity to the country name, MOZAMBIQUE, which can be broken into MOZAMB- + -IQUE, the French equivalent to the suffix, |-IC|.

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