Anonymous user
Pleasantview/Onomatology: Difference between revisions
m
Undid revision 651209 by 90.190.45.43 (Talk)
imported>LiRBot m (→The [[Goth family]]: relinking, replaced: Downtown → Downtown) |
imported>Icemandeaf m (Undid revision 651209 by 90.190.45.43 (Talk)) |
||
| (9 intermediate revisions by 7 users not shown) | |||
Line 66:
*'''[[Adriana Lothario]]''' (Don's mother): Means "From Hadria". Hadria is a town in northern Italy.
*'''[[Carmelo Lothario]]''' (Don's paternal grandfather): "cultivated terrain" Spanish from Hebrew
*'''[[Mama Lothario]]''' (Don's paternal grandmother): Slang for an attractive woman. Could also mean mama, as in a child's biological female parent.
Line 99:
This still retains the Mediterranean origin, seeing as the Arabic language is near the Middle-East, which is at the very east tip of the Mediterranean. Anything else about this family is unknown.
*Tango is a popular dance in the Spanish-speaking countries of South America. "Tango Caliente" is when the dance turns hot. The same is true of Flamenco Caliente. In the
==The [[Broke family]]==
Line 128:
*'''Simovitch''' -- "ovitch" is the Russian suffix meaning "son of". So Simovitch means "Son of Sim". Thanks DarkShadowofFate!
*'''[[Vadim Simovitch]]''' (Brandi's maternal grandfather) -- Russian name,
*'''[[Fatima Simovitch]]''' (Brandi's maternal grandmother) -- Means "to abstain" in Arabic.
Line 152:
*'''Dander''' -- "loose scales formed on the skin and shed from the coat of feathers of various animals"
*'''[[Marshall Danders]]'''(Daniel's maternal
*'''[[Melinda Danders]]''' (Daniel's maternal grandmother) -- Combination of "Mel" as in Melanie or Melissa and the popular suffix "inda". Means "honey" in Greek. Also means "sweet", "dark" and "serpent" in other languages. Might mean "horse" in Simlish. Thanks fireflygolden!
Line 160:
*'''[[Jennifer Burb]]''' (Daniel's sister) -- Popular name meaning "fair, white, smooth"
(For Jennifer's side of the family, please look under the Pleasant category)
*'''[[Lucy Burb]]''' --
*The only
*'''[[Brad Burb]]''' (John's father) -- Popular name meaning "broad".
Line 180:
==The [[Oldie family]]==
*'''Oldie''' -- slang for a person who is "far advanced in the years of his/her life". You could also use the term "chronologically challenged".
*'''[[Herb Oldie]]''' (Mary-Sue's adoptive father) -- A flowering plant whose stem above ground does not become woody. Such a plant valued for medical properties. Short for Herbert, meaning "Illustrious warrior" in German.
*'''[[Coral Oldie]]''' (Mary-Sue's adoptive mother) -- The rock like composite found in a reef.
*'''[[Myron Oldie]]''' (Herb's father) -- Means "Myrrh" in Greek. Myrrh is a fragrant resin obtained from the bark of an Arabian tree.
Line 204:
*'''Darong''' -- ((no information found, but Darong is an anagram of Dragon))
*'''[[Sef Darong]]''' (Darren's maternal grandfather) -- It could be a form of Seth, an
*'''[[Lina Darong]]''' (Darren's maternal grandmother) -- Means either "palm tree" or "tender" in Arabic.
Line 221:
*'''[[Elden Hick]]''' -- It means "Ella's Hill" or "Valley of Elves"; it can be a variant of Eldon which means 'Ella's Hill'. It can also be a variant of Alden which means 'old friend'. There is also to elden that means 'to grow old'.
*'''[[Mama Hick]]''' (Elden's mother) Named for a hillbilly slang, Mama Hick. Means "mother", or 'attractive person'.
*'''[[Bobo Hick]]''' -- It can mean, as a
*'''[[Duke Hick]]''' -- It means to "lead" and also a title of nobility.
*'''[[Leroy Hick]]''' -- It means "the king" and comes from the French term 'Le Roi'.
Line 245:
==The [[Landgraab family]]==
*'''Landgraab'''-- as in grabbing land. The double vowel might indicate a German origin; the German verb "graben" means "to dig". "Grab" is also the German word for "grave".
*'''Malcolm Landgraab, II, III, IV'''-- (there was a quote on him) ''We will establish our estate upon''
Line 258:
*'''[[Blair Buckingham]]'''-- (Celtic) "a plain". From a surname
*'''[[Virginia Buckingham]]'''-- (Latin) "chaste". According to legend, she was a Roman woman killed by her father so as to keep her a virgin
==References==
| |||