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Ceisiwr
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How old someone translate their English name into pali?
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Ceisiwr wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 4:45 pm How old someone translate their English name into pali?
Maybe if you trace your name back to the original language and find the 'not name' words that created your name - you could use that for translating.

Never saw this before;

http://dictionary.tamilcube.com/pali-dictionary.aspx

Metta

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edit: many English names have remote origins

edit edit: some place like this? https://www.sheknows.com/baby-names/baby-boy-names/

edit edit edit: my first name as a surname origins: https://www.thoughtco.com/lee-name-mean ... in-1422546

My last name Overstreet: over =
over : upari ; uttariṃ ; uddhaṃ . (prep .) ati ; abhi ; adhi ; pati || all over: 1 . sabbattha ; 2 . paripuṇṇaṃ . uparima ; upariṭṭha ; is over: niṭṭhitaṃ .
over and over : puanappunaṃ .
Over upari .
over-again : puna pi .
over-against : abhimukhaṃ .
overact : aticarati ; pamāṇam atikkamati . aticarita ; atikkantapamāṇa .
overalls : paridhānāvaraṇa .
overawe : bhāyāpeti ; abhibhavati . bhāyāpita ; abhibhūta .
overbalance : atituleti . atitulita .
overbear : dameti ; vasīkaroti . danta ; vasīkata .
bent over : avakujja .
call over : nāmāni uccāreti or vāceti .
carry over : atiharati .
come over : atikkamati ; adhivattati .
covering over : oguṇṭhana ; pariyonahana .

Street =
street : racchā ; vīthi ; visikhā ; rathikā .
street sweeper : vīthisodhaka .
Street visikh� .
street walker : gaṇikā .
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Ceisiwr wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 4:45 pm How [could] someone translate their English name into pali?
Your name already has a more-or-less direct cognate:

Khara.

Craig literally refers to a geological crag, and it comes from a root meaning "stone" or "hard."

You can go with "Kharo" if you want it to sound a bit more masculine.

I have a funny Irish version of "Kevin" for a name, and it comes out to Kṣemajanas or Khemajana.

Keevin = Caoimhghín = caoimh + ghín

Caoimh is "to do with the hearth"/"kindred"
ghín = genus, as in the Latin word "genus."

What's your last name, if you dare disclose?
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NotMe wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 5:48 pmMy last name Overstreet: over =
The "over" in your surname is actually a false friend with the modern English "over." The "over" in your name comes from "ofer," which used to refer to the banks of a river or the beach by a sea.
What is the Uncreated?
Sublime & free, what is that obscured Eternity?
It is the Undying, the Bright, the Isle.
It is an Ocean, a Secret: Reality.
Both life and oblivion, it is Nirvāṇa.
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How would one say "of [a family name]"? Thanks
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"-gotra" or "-gotta".

Vatsagotra, or Vacchagotta, has a name meaning "of the Calf family."
What is the Uncreated?
Sublime & free, what is that obscured Eternity?
It is the Undying, the Bright, the Isle.
It is an Ocean, a Secret: Reality.
Both life and oblivion, it is Nirvāṇa.
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Coëmgenu wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 10:11 pm "-gotra" or "-gotta".

Vatsagotra, or Vacchagotta, has a name meaning "of the Calf family."
That will do thanks :twothumbsup:
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Coëmgenu wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 8:49 pm
NotMe wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 5:48 pmMy last name Overstreet: over =
The "over" in your surname is actually a false friend with the modern English "over." The "over" in your name comes from "ofer," which used to refer to the banks of a river or the beach by a sea.
Metta

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