From: tgpedersen
Message: 64906
Date: 2009-08-22
>Nice to know. But if the name is not made out of thin air, it would have been made from existing material, and for the Germanic-speaker in the invasion there would be no Germanic material to make names in P- from. And if they did make it up out of thin air, how come some of the names match some in NWEurope, in particular Frisian ones? And if they made them up out of thin air in NWEurope before the invasion together with the Frisians, how come the stem of some of the names match the stem of some Illyrian, Etruscan and Latin ones?
> > I basically meant making up names out of thin air. I think
> > this is what happens when African-American parents name
> > their daughters 'Lakeesha' or 'Jawanda' and names like
> > that.
>
> <Lakeisha> (probably the most common spelling) has been
> around for several decades now and can safely be considered
> an established name. (<Jawanda> is mildly exceptional:
> modern constructions in <Ja-> are more often masculine than
> feminine.)
>
> Brian
> Not all African-American names are made up out of thin air. Many
> are from African languages, from Ancient Egyptian or from Arabic.
> Many times the spellings are eccentric, e.g. Moesha, Iyesha, Tia,
> etc.Some, for whatever reason, are from Gaelic, e,g, Ciara, Siobhan
> but often spelled Sierra, Shavaughn, etc. But Americans of all
> colors butcher Caitlin, turning it into Catelyn, etc. So, African-
> Americans have no monopoly on distinctive names. All you have to do
> is check out my family in West Virginia for proof of that.