New Post
Search
Help
Archives"Aski" (Scandanavian) and "Bil" (a Norse name , meaning interval/ interspace - apparently??)
Bil, strange if this in fact the meaning? any help welcome....
This message was edited 2/28/2005, 4:36 AM
1
Replies
Bil is the Swedish word for "car", but "bila" is also an old word for an axe (especially the sort used by an assassin).
1
Short for AutomoBIL?
1
I'm in Uppsala, Sweden. Sorry, I've never heard the name Pacca.
1
ASKI reminds me of the ash tree.
BIL - I don't know about the Norse name and have no books. Förstemann (Altdeutsches Namenbuch, Personennamen) lists a stem BILI used mainly by the Saxons. They had names like BILI, BILO or BILIFRID etc. As a meaning he gives either lenitas (mildness), placititas (calmness) or he refers to Grimm's Deutsches Wörterbuch (II, 26):
BILL, aequitas (equality), ius (right), lex (law), a very old word, not found in Old High German any more exept in names like Pilidrut or Pilihelm.
There is more about this (and a reference to Old Nordic "bil" meaning "distance, interspace", as you say) and a goddess "Bil" in Grimms Deutsche Mythologie, so if you are intereseted, I could find out more.
BIL - I don't know about the Norse name and have no books. Förstemann (Altdeutsches Namenbuch, Personennamen) lists a stem BILI used mainly by the Saxons. They had names like BILI, BILO or BILIFRID etc. As a meaning he gives either lenitas (mildness), placititas (calmness) or he refers to Grimm's Deutsches Wörterbuch (II, 26):
BILL, aequitas (equality), ius (right), lex (law), a very old word, not found in Old High German any more exept in names like Pilidrut or Pilihelm.
There is more about this (and a reference to Old Nordic "bil" meaning "distance, interspace", as you say) and a goddess "Bil" in Grimms Deutsche Mythologie, so if you are intereseted, I could find out more.
1
Thanks Andy, once again. The trouble is whilst there are references sources our there, seemingly none in English Language, so i'm stuck!
regards, Bagpus and friends
regards, Bagpus and friends
1
So what is your mother tounge?
And once more: Are you interested in further information on BIL?
Andy ;—)
And once more: Are you interested in further information on BIL?
Andy ;—)
1
Hi, Andy, sorry i missed that last line, on your kind offer of more on "Bil". What i'm trying to establish is if the useage of Bil (when it means interspace), is usuage as in a name?
My mother tongue is English, in England at school you normally get a mininal choice of languages to learn:- French, German or if your lucky a further choice of Spanish or Italian, but as to nordic languages no chance!
I live in East Anglia (as in the kingdom of the East Angles) and it is covered with places meaning the tun of (the Anglo Saxon)personnel name.
Whilst i can work out the meaning of the place name, i cannot when it comes to the personnel name behind the ownership?
Like, i lived in Pakefield, meaning Pacca's field (Old Norse) But what does Pacca mean??? and so on.
Thanks you help, always appreciated, regards Bagpus (Paul)
My mother tongue is English, in England at school you normally get a mininal choice of languages to learn:- French, German or if your lucky a further choice of Spanish or Italian, but as to nordic languages no chance!
I live in East Anglia (as in the kingdom of the East Angles) and it is covered with places meaning the tun of (the Anglo Saxon)personnel name.
Whilst i can work out the meaning of the place name, i cannot when it comes to the personnel name behind the ownership?
Like, i lived in Pakefield, meaning Pacca's field (Old Norse) But what does Pacca mean??? and so on.
Thanks you help, always appreciated, regards Bagpus (Paul)
1
If BIL is a masculine name, I agree with Caprice and say, it means "hatchet". The German word for this is "Beil", and I've come across it as a name element before.
1