2018 February Guadeloupe - My Name by STOSKIENE RITA https://padlet.com/rita100/8upm13m8qq0r Explore the meaning of your name. Write a short paragraph: what are traditions in naming people in your culture and what is the meaning of your name. Add your photo. en-us 2018-01-22 01:40:23 UTC 2026-01-28 09:36:04 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/prod/6735307/a678eab476bfbdcd17400b6193ecb6f1/coral_m.png Francisca Angnes Purice fpurice https://padlet.com/rita100/8upm13m8qq0r/wish/223362667 "Francisca" is a name which can be found in Portughese and French culture, but variants of it are also in Italian. It originally meant a "free woman". "Agnes", my other first name, is apparently encountered in Greek and Spanish culture and it means "pure".
Both these names belong to a character from a book read by my mother, whom she liked very much. Incidently, the character was also a teacher.
And the funny story is that because I was born in 1980 when the communiste regime was at its preak in Romania, such names were not approved by authorities. So, when my mum went to register my name, she was refused. It was not a comunist name, a name for the working class. But she bagan to cry and she said to the civil servant that she can't return home without naming me like this or else her husband will beat her. So, the lady had to write my birth certificate as she wanted. But, because she didn't know it, she wrote it wrong: Francisca in stead of Francesca and she made the S from Agnes into a similar Romanian letter with diacritics.
My family name - "Purice"- means "flee" in Romanian language. This is also funny because I am a minion person...]]> 2018-01-22 15:05:18 UTC https://padlet.com/rita100/8upm13m8qq0r/wish/223362667 Judit Emma Tóth judit_toth3 https://padlet.com/rita100/8upm13m8qq0r/wish/223668261
Judit Emma Tóth is my third name in my lifetime. It began with a funny story. My father had two last names: Tóth-Gábor, so i was born with the name Tóth-Gábor Judit. Gábor in hungarian language is a male name what was a bit wierd to have a female and a male name in the same time, even if the male one was the part of my family name. My mother forced my father to change his name, so i got a new identity with the age 1: Judit Tóth. I never felt unique with this name because in hungary this is a very popular family and also first name, so when i returned 18 years old i thought i need an other first name to be the only one in Hungary with my name. I choosed Emma, like my grandma, she felt very proud about my decision. So for 10 years i have my current name and i just love it. 

Judit   is a sensitive and emotional woman with a very charming manner, who is eager to please and be liked in return. She is rather outgoing and seeks the company of others, with whom she is sociable, communicative, and particularly accommodating and helpful.”

Emma is a german name what also represents that my grandma is kraut (german people immigrated to Hungary). The holder of this name is restless, has neverending curiosity, always search for new adventures and loves freedom.

I never felt about to search for the meaning of my names, but now i see it totally fits who am i: sensitive, emotional, charming, sociable, helpful and the same time restless, have neverending curiosity and always searching for new advantures.

Tóth, my family name means slovakian people, but i have no origins to that country. It is funny that me as a hungarian has a jewish (Judit), a german (Emma) and a slovakian (Tóth) name in the same time :)

]]> 2018-01-23 08:27:45 UTC https://padlet.com/rita100/8upm13m8qq0r/wish/223668261 Tamara Elena Iftemie fpurice https://padlet.com/rita100/8upm13m8qq0r/wish/224183109 My name wonders all over the globe. Tamara is from a Hebrew word meaning palm tree, Elena is from the Greek name Helena, which means light, and my family name Iftemie is a pretty common Romanian name, with some variants. My surname does not havea  special significance, but it might come from one of my ancestors of Greek origin, as this name resembles Greek names. This is not uncommon in Romania, taking into account that there are a lot of names with Greek origin, as the Romanian countries have gone through a so-called "Phanariot era" when they were led by a Greek aristocracy, imposed by the Ottomans as an alternative to their  transformation into pashalah. ]]> 2018-01-24 12:51:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rita100/8upm13m8qq0r/wish/224183109 Emőke Csollány e_csollany https://padlet.com/rita100/8upm13m8qq0r/wish/224208274 People usually call me Emő or Emi. The meaning of my first name is very easy and handy: a newborn baby, a baby fed with breastmilk. The name  originates from the XIX. century. People called Emoke are keen on making their dreams come true. Their feature is that they suffer when in a subordinate relationship. Regarding numerology, it equals 49, meaning cute, fancy, alive – which is mostly true about me, being a very active and sporty person. There are at least 3600 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population.

Csollány is an old, middle European word referring to the plant called „nettle”. You know, this is the fast growing green, flowerless plant which causes pain on your skin if you touch it. But also a great medicine and cure for rheuma, what’s more, it heals your body if you drink it as tea. Nettle is also used in creams for muscles. 

So, I need a lot of education and new knowledge as a newborn baby, and sometimes I may cause a little bit of pain, but for sure, I contain 100% natural cure for other people. JEEEJ. 

]]> 2018-01-24 13:56:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rita100/8upm13m8qq0r/wish/224208274 Liviu Gindu fpurice https://padlet.com/rita100/8upm13m8qq0r/wish/224224272 My first name is of Latin origin. Romanians have a lot of Roman names, our people and langauage formed after the conquest of Dacia by the Roman Empire. My family name has a significance. It means Thought, so you can say I am am a thoughtful person :). It is also funny, because I am from a village, close to the one in which I am a teacher now, called Heaven (Rai in Romanian). So, I am a Thought from Heaven...]]> 2018-01-24 14:25:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rita100/8upm13m8qq0r/wish/224224272 Jutta Gless jutta_gless1 https://padlet.com/rita100/8upm13m8qq0r/wish/225726557 Both my names are not very common in Germany (although I have a huge family). During my school time I have always been the only one being called Jutta. I guess I have only encountered 2 or 3 other Juttas and those have been about 10 years older than me. When searching for the meaning of my first name Jutta , I find out that it could be from an Israeli name (woman from Juda). The explanation that was given is:  turning away. Whereas they also say it would mean: the one who knows god. For me that seems like a contradiction. Or does it express my nature of somehow knowing but sometimes not wanting to see? I have to admit that I have never identified very much with my name. It also could be a form of the name Judith/Juditha. And here I refer to Judith’s interpretation, which I quite like :-)
My family name Gless is perhaps a reduced form of the Swiss expression Glesser or Glessmann, who is the craftsman who works with glas. My ancestors have lived in the area where I come from (south-west Germany) at least since 1600 and used to be farmers.]]> 2018-01-29 16:51:24 UTC https://padlet.com/rita100/8upm13m8qq0r/wish/225726557 Tanja Carmen Weßbecher rita100 https://padlet.com/rita100/8upm13m8qq0r/wish/226490596 My first name Tanja is an abbreviation of the Russian name Tatjana. It’s also known in English speaking countries whereas there it is spelt with an “i” instead of a “j” like in German speaking countries.

I also found out, that in Slovakia the name Tania means “fairy queen of Tatjana”.

My second name derives from Spanish. It is also known in Latin America and Hebrew- the Hebrew from is Carmel. Carmen means garden in Spanish.

My last name is spelt with a “German s” (=ß =ss). When I am abroad I write “ss” instead of “ß”, because people who are not familiar with this letter often read a “B” instead of an “s”. In the village where I live as well as in the villages nearby we have quite a few families with that surname some are spelt with one “s” and also with “ss”- so there are three different varieties. 50km away from where I live, the surname is rather unknown – I always need to spell it. The family name obviously derived from two old German words  (Weß-)  Wiese in German - “meadow” and (-becher) – Bach in German - “brook”. Maybe the people lived near a meadow and a brook.

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