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Way2Curious
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| twelfthofnever wrote: | | sororyzbl wrote: | | Lurker wrote: | | sororyzbl wrote: | Maybe you're thinking Brigid, the celtic goddess? goddess of flames, one of the tua de danaan?
What's bree short for anyway? Sabrina? Brianna? I've seen both. |
It doesn't necessarily have to be short for anything. "Bree" might be her full first name. |
maybe maybe, but If you're analyzing names, I'd suggest looking for the most general, then the specific. generally, people who go by "bree" are not given that name. How many people do you know who have the name "Tony" on their birth certificate? |
I know a pretty good amount of people who actually named their kids what they intended to call them. Thus, I know a few legal "Chris," "Tim," and "Allie"'s. "Tony" and coincidentally "Bree" is also very common. |
When I was little my mom let me help pick out my brother's name before he was born....and that is why the name on his birth certificate is actually "Joey" and not Joseph....Alot of people don't believe him when he says that Joey isn't short for anything.....  |
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JustAnotherLonelyGirl.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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On my birth certificate, my name says "Thing 1."
jk.
I know a legal Katie though... and a legal Abby. |
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I've been doing some more random research realting to names, and I tried an anagram server. Nothing really worked. There was only one interesting thing, and that was the "Order of Denderah" is an exact anagram of "A Defended Horror". Interesting, huh? I have no idea if this is a coincidence or not, but, still. It's cool. I'm going to go and surf around some more.
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Breeze
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I would have to look for the message but months ago I messaged LonelyGirl15 on YouTube (or maybe it was Jess's myspace?) and asked her if Bree was short for anything, and she said she didn't know but she would ask the directors. She never got back to me, but I was just curious back then because my name is Bri  Short for Briana.
Names that can be shortened to Bri/Bree: Brittney, Gabriel, Briana, Sabrina, Bria, Britta.
Hope that helps!
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EEVEE
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| Just a quick little story, but you know my legal name is Chris and ,when I was a baby, people would always mistake me for a boy (i'm a girl). So my parents just gave me the nickname of Chrissy. |
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Beckers
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| girlAnachronism wrote: | Interesting. How can Jonas mean both a dove (symbol of peace) and a destroyer?
As for broth, I'm at loss, maybe we should all run and check out soup labels. |
he could be the destryer of evil |
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Beckers
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| Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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| 7Harry7Potter7 wrote: | | I've been doing some more random research realting to names, and I tried an anagram server. Nothing really worked. There was only one interesting thing, and that was the "Order of Denderah" is an exact anagram of "A Defended Horror". Interesting, huh? I have no idea if this is a coincidence or not, but, still. It's cool. I'm going to go and surf around some more. |
very interesting... |
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cynicar
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| Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 1:11 pm Post subject: |
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| imogene2004 wrote: | I looked up Bree on behindthename.com and this is what I got:
BREE Irish
Anglicized form of BRÍGH
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BRÍGH
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: BREE [key]
Derived from Irish brígh meaning "power, high". |
That's interesting, given all the speculation that Bree is some kind of chosen one.
The fact that both the boys in this have very... Biblical names also struck me as interesting. I wonder if there's any parallels there. |
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Luv2Skydive
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| Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 1:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | When I was little my mom let me help pick out my brother's name before he was born....and that is why the name on his birth certificate is actually "Joey" and not Joseph....Alot of people don't believe him when he says that Joey isn't short for anything..... |
OT a bit...my older son picked out my younger son's name by accident. He was 6 and I'd just turned on the computer and he said "Logan?" and I looked and it said "LogOn".....but I liked the name so much we used it. 
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7Harry7Potter7
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| cynicar wrote: | | imogene2004 wrote: | I looked up Bree on behindthename.com and this is what I got:
BREE Irish
Anglicized form of BRÍGH
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BRÍGH
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: BREE [key]
Derived from Irish brígh meaning "power, high". |
That's interesting, given all the speculation that Bree is some kind of chosen one.
The fact that both the boys in this have very... Biblical names also struck me as interesting. I wonder if there's any parallels there. |
I thought the exact same thing. I looked around to try to find if there was a place in the Bible where Jonah and Daniel were mentioned together or something, but I couldn't find anything. I wonder if they made them very Biblical names on purpose? Is there a connection between the Jonah and Daniel in the Bible and the Jonas and Daniel in the Breeniverse? hmm...
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cynicar
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Well, Jonah is from" Jonah and the Whale." He's selected by God to go and preach to this one town, gets cold feet, and choses to try to go somewhere else. So when he's on this boat, God causes a storm and Jonah tells the crew to throw him overboard to ensure the saftey of their ship. So they do and Jonah gets swallowed by a whale and is spat up three days later after he's repented. Apparently, digestive juices help with this sort of thing.
Daniel is one of the old testament writers and is considered a prophet by the Christian tradition, but not by Judaism. This is according to wikipedia anyways.
Maybe it points to their roles in the story? Daniel as a revealer of things (seems to fit so far) and Jonah... getting eaten? Maybe he'll betray them and repent? |
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Beckers
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| hmmm... |
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senoritablanca
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| Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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| cynicar wrote: | Well, Jonah is from" Jonah and the Whale." He's selected by God to go and preach to this one town, gets cold feet, and choses to try to go somewhere else. So when he's on this boat, God causes a storm and Jonah tells the crew to throw him overboard to ensure the saftey of their ship. So they do and Jonah gets swallowed by a whale and is spat up three days later after he's repented. Apparently, digestive juices help with this sort of thing.
Daniel is one of the old testament writers and is considered a prophet by the Christian tradition, but not by Judaism. This is according to wikipedia anyways.
Maybe it points to their roles in the story? Daniel as a revealer of things (seems to fit so far) and Jonah... getting eaten? Maybe he'll betray them and repent? |
jonah never betrayed. he was just stubborn as crap. |
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cynicar
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| Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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| senoritablanca wrote: |
jonah never betrayed. he was just stubborn as crap. |
Well, the word has connotations that I guess don't quite fit. Do you know what I mean though? Deviating from the course you promised to go on. Does that work?
Edited because I totally misread seniorita blanca at first. Stupid s vs. h phenom. |
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