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[Facts] Re: Meaning of name Atreyu
This board is for facts.Please give us the place where you found all this information, so that we can judge its reliability. Though I'm afraid that "Origin: Unique (Ancient) does not inspire confidence. Are you sure it's not based on the character in "Neverending Story"? In which case it says nothing about the origin, language, usage etc of the name, and on this board that is what we look for.
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Atreyu has been discussed before.
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According to a person from Maine, USA the name is Native American in origin and means 'Warrior'.
This showed up on a search of: meaning of the name 'Atreyu' done on bing! search engine on April 22, 2019.
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The origin of this name is Michael Ende’s book The Neverending Story. In that book he was orphaned and raised communally by his tribe, so his name, in the made-up language of The People of the Purple Buffalo is “son of all.” So it’s from a 1970’s novel and a made-up language
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