Your name tells you about your unique personality, your culture your mother tongue and how valued you are.

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Your name tells you about your unique personality, your culture your mother tongue and how valued you are.

2/9/2016

For this International Mother Language Day 2016, Let's look at the meaning of our names in different Languages and the story behind them.

Regina
GENDER: Feminine

USAGE: English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Late Roman

PRONOUNCED: rə-JEEN-ə (English), rə-GEEN-ə (English), rə-JIEN-ə (English), re-GEE-nah (German, Polish), re-JEE-nah (Italian), RE-gee-naw (Hungarian)

Regina means "queen" in Latin (or Italian), used as Christian name from early times, and was borne by a 2nd-century saint. In England it was used during the Middle Ages in honour of the Virgin Mary, and it was later revived in the 19th century. A city in Canada bears this name, in honour of Queen Victoria.

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Robert lang link

2/10/2016 14:24:35

My name is Robert

I've never researched this before, but was aware that my sir-name, Lang, was possibly derived from Germanic origins. It turns out, according to most web based entries, that so is Robert, meaning "bright fame" which was introduced to these shores by the Normans (it's the same in French of course), and derived from an old German name: Hrodebert, which translated originally in to Old English as:Hreodbeorht - which I quite like. Another entry from The Urban Dictionary online defines the core characteristics of Robert as and I quote; "The most incredible guy in the universe. End of Story". Well...what more can one say...?

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