Behind the Name: CrownOfFools1's Personal Name List

Vereinigte Staaten

Usage: German

German calque of United States (using the adjective vereinigt meaning "united"). It is written with the definite article die.

Uruguay

Usage: Spanish, English, French, Italian, Romanian, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, Czech, Turkish

Pronounced: oo-roo-GWIE(Spanish, Italian) YUWR-ə-gwie(English) UWR-ə-gway(English) UY-RUY-GWEH(French) OO-roo-gvie(Finnish, Hungarian)

The name of a country in South America, derived from a river of the same name. It is possibly from Guaraní uruguá, referring to a type of water snail. Alternatively it could come from uru "quail", gua "from" and y "water".

Portsmouth

Usage: English

Pronounced: PAWRT-sməth

Meaning unknown. This is the name of a port city in Hampshire County, UK.

Oklahoma

Usage: English (American)

Name of a state in the United States, from Choctaw okla "people" "tribe" "nation" + homma "red".

Lassy

Usage: French

Derived from Lascius, a Gallo-Roman name of unknown meaning. This is the name of a commune in Calvados, France.

Holstein

Usage: German, English, Dutch

From the name of a Saxon tribe, derived from Old Saxon holt meaning "wood" and the suffix -setio meaning "inhabitant". This is the name of a historical region in Germany, near the Danish border. It forms part of the name of the modern German state of Schleswig-Holstein.