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Help[Surname] meaning of name Blais French
I have had bo luck trying to find the meaning of this surname.
Please help. Thannks, Susan
Please help. Thannks, Susan
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meaning or my first name
i've read 'bout the meaning of Blais French and I'm curious of teh meaning of my name either. could u send me information 'bout that on my e-mail?
thanx a lot
i've read 'bout the meaning of Blais French and I'm curious of teh meaning of my name either. could u send me information 'bout that on my e-mail?
thanx a lot
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More on Blais
Today by chance, I read in « The Lives of the Saints » printed by the Catholique Church that St. Blais was condemned and burned at the stake. In church records, it was noted that lisped and stuttered badly.
This little fact gives additional strength to the definition in the Larousse that Blais means lisp.
Today by chance, I read in « The Lives of the Saints » printed by the Catholique Church that St. Blais was condemned and burned at the stake. In church records, it was noted that lisped and stuttered badly.
This little fact gives additional strength to the definition in the Larousse that Blais means lisp.
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To 'From France'
You have very good English, actually! However, in English, you should spell 'Catholic' with a -c ending. :)
You have very good English, actually! However, in English, you should spell 'Catholic' with a -c ending. :)
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Follow-Up: meaning of name Blais French
Another spelling of Blais also is Blaise, commonly Blaize in areas of France who speak Franco-Provençale (also called Valdotain, Valasien, and Forézienne), especially Savoy, France and Val d'Aosta, Italy which has about 70,000 speakers according to recent European Community reports. (Some people also speak this language in the canton of Vaud, Suisse/Switzerland and a few in the départements of Jura, Doubs, Ain, and Isère, France.)
(The native language of my family is Franco-Provençale. It is neither French nor Provençal, but a completely different, ancient, Latin language. Many words in French derive from it. In English, ordinary words of this origin you might know include « chalet » and « avalanche ».)
Other Franco-Provençale names include: Charvet and Charvoz (in French, Chauvé, Chauvin, and Chauvot; in Latin Charveys; all from meaning bald or treeless in English), Thollon (surname variation for French name Antoine), Berlioz, Chartraz, etc. (As you can see by my selected examples, typical names from Franco-Provençale many times have the silent letters z and x, the sound of « arv » where one might expect « auv », and also double letter LL.)
Back to the name Blais, which if pronounced « BLAI », no S sound (in English, I think this is not likely), it could come from the French word for wheat, which is « blé », but this is only a slight possibility.
I hope I did not make too many mistakes with my English for you in this message.
Another spelling of Blais also is Blaise, commonly Blaize in areas of France who speak Franco-Provençale (also called Valdotain, Valasien, and Forézienne), especially Savoy, France and Val d'Aosta, Italy which has about 70,000 speakers according to recent European Community reports. (Some people also speak this language in the canton of Vaud, Suisse/Switzerland and a few in the départements of Jura, Doubs, Ain, and Isère, France.)
(The native language of my family is Franco-Provençale. It is neither French nor Provençal, but a completely different, ancient, Latin language. Many words in French derive from it. In English, ordinary words of this origin you might know include « chalet » and « avalanche ».)
Other Franco-Provençale names include: Charvet and Charvoz (in French, Chauvé, Chauvin, and Chauvot; in Latin Charveys; all from meaning bald or treeless in English), Thollon (surname variation for French name Antoine), Berlioz, Chartraz, etc. (As you can see by my selected examples, typical names from Franco-Provençale many times have the silent letters z and x, the sound of « arv » where one might expect « auv », and also double letter LL.)
Back to the name Blais, which if pronounced « BLAI », no S sound (in English, I think this is not likely), it could come from the French word for wheat, which is « blé », but this is only a slight possibility.
I hope I did not make too many mistakes with my English for you in this message.
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my fru=iends name is Chauvin And he is wondering how old it was
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Blais is a variation of the Blèse, from Bléser, which in English means Lisp, as to talk with a lisp. Names originally based on attributes of individuals such as how one looks or how one speaks is common in the French language. A source for this information is from the Larousse « Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de famille » by Albert Dauzat, 1993.
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