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Help[Facts] Re: Berengar(ia)
in reply to a message by Daividh
You probably already found this website while doing a 'net search:
http://www.thebabyoutlet.com/html/additional_channels/names/girls_b.html
...where it defines "Berengaria" as meaning "spearbearer maid". How reliable that is, I dunno. I'll check a few other resources tomorrow, but I don't have anything handy that covers obsolete medieval names right now.
Cool topic posting, Daividh. Interesting challenge! :)
-- Nanaea
http://www.thebabyoutlet.com/html/additional_channels/names/girls_b.html
...where it defines "Berengaria" as meaning "spearbearer maid". How reliable that is, I dunno. I'll check a few other resources tomorrow, but I don't have anything handy that covers obsolete medieval names right now.
Cool topic posting, Daividh. Interesting challenge! :)
-- Nanaea
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I came across a website which claims beren means "bear" in early Low German. That would make Berengar a dithematic name meaning "bear spear".
Unfortunately the website is now defunct, so the link below points to Google's cache:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:BIpcy4-chSU:www1.tip.nl/~t401243/names/name4_en.htm+beren+germanic+root&hl=en
Unfortunately the website is now defunct, so the link below points to Google's cache:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:BIpcy4-chSU:www1.tip.nl/~t401243/names/name4_en.htm+beren+germanic+root&hl=en
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Mike, this seems the most plausible meaning offered. Sounds good to me! You get a point for that one... : )
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Mike's theory checks out via this source, too
From *The Classic 1000 Baby Names* (Foulsham of London, c1993):
Berengaria (Teutonic) "Spearer of bears".
Berengar (Teutonic) "Bear, spear".
-- Nanaea
From *The Classic 1000 Baby Names* (Foulsham of London, c1993):
Berengaria (Teutonic) "Spearer of bears".
Berengar (Teutonic) "Bear, spear".
-- Nanaea
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