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Hi Marina,
I like the meanings of names. My first name is Victor, it’s latin and means vanquisher.
Sorry for my bad english
Kisses from spain!
I’m going to go with the less popular Rusalka Marina
Great job - do you do all the production?
Hi and the meaning of mi name Jesse is?
Ay marine daria me by what you have a woman like you, if you’re charming, sexy, passionate, that if you’re a woman with something special pity that these so far.
I hope some day to travel to your country but I lack jejje learn a lot from English to write all that I am using the translator jajaja.
good together and I hope all the money necessary to travel to the U.S. any day good luck kisses and my teacher, your student is the heart with arrows, my platonic love.
Sounds like ET to me
Clearly, the origin of the word has to do with fertility rites. in ancient times it was traditional for the just married couple to spend a month (moon) sharing a cup of mead (honey wine) which was attributed to act as an aphrodesiac, and therefore to insure children. rice is thrown at weddings for the same reason, to symbolise fertility.
nequaquam veritum
I read somewhere that the term honeymoon comes from ireland. I was reading a story about Brian Boru which would mean that it was around 1000 years ago, but the custom was that the bride and groom had to drink mead every night until the next full moon for fetility and because mead is an alcoholic drink made from honey the term honeymoon was coined.
I would say that your name, Marina, in your case would mean marine-like or pertaining to underwater because I’m swimming in your loveliness and beauty whenever I see your captivating and beauteous face!!
The phrase comes from a tradition of 4000 years old: Babylon, during the months that followed the marriage, the father of the bride had to offer his son-in-law as much as “mead”, a beer-based honey, as he could. The calendar is lunar, this period lasted therefore a moon, that’s why they named it; honeymoon!
That sounds really good hopefully one day
You must be from mars because I’m almost positive they don’t make women like you on earth. =P
Must me Mars ;P
Dear teacher
I have watched this lesson with attention as usual. I must confess that the old lessons are as excellent than the new ones! Thank you for this game about the names (I understand now that one of my request was useless).
Amicalement
Your devoted student
Don Felipe
Philip means “Lover of Horses” from -
Philos - for “love” of as in Philology (Love of words), and
Hippos - for “horses” as in “Hippopotamus” which means “river horse”.
Actually I was named after my father’s favorite teacher in college. Maybe some day their will be a lot of cute little girls named “Marina” by grateful students (just so long as their wives do not know where the name came from)
My last name means short.
No research done, except actually on my Honeymoon. Ah great to have those memories & the years since have been quite a journey.
Just checking in to see what keeetkat had to say. Lots of research done. Admirable student.
How much inspiration a great lookin teacher gives to higher learning. WOW
Oh and here this is Jabu! My girl that is 8000 miles away and her mom is dying of cancer today!
You say it best when you say nothing at all!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT0QFM78fpo
And here is the first page of the Tao De Ching, the oldest religious manuscript known to man:
“…
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth.
The named is the mother of ten thousand things.
Ever desireless, one can see the mystery.
Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations.
These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gate to all mystery.
…”
I am not religious, I may believe in some power above me, oh many really. How ever you pray , pray for Jabu’s mother. Pray fo me and i pray for you too. May the whole world be at peace and may the fun run too hehehe!
“…
Life is a game
In order to have a game
something has to be more important
than something else.
If what already is,
is more important than what isn’t,
the game is over.
So life is a game in which what isn’t ,
is more important than what is.
Let the good times roll.
…”
Honeymoon is defined as “1 : a period of harmony immediately following marriage 2 : a period of unusual harmony especially following the establishment of a new relationship 3 : a trip or vacation taken by a newly married couple.”
There are many variations on the history of “honeymoon.” It has been thought that it occurs from the practice of the ancient Teutons of drinking honeyed wine (hydromel) for thirty days after marriage. Attila the Hun is said to have died after overindulging in hydromel during his wedding feast. Hydromel, also known as mead or metheglin, is a honey wine that not only symbolized the sweetness of marriage but also had reputed aphrodisiacal properties. This beverage is said to have been drunk at the wedding feast, but also every night for the next month. One version states that the Babylonians had a practice of the father of the bride giving mead to his new son-in-law for the first month of the marriage.
As wonderfully romantic as the above explanations are, there is evidence that the term “honeymoon” is first used in the 16th century (1546) to mean ‘the period of pleasure immediately following a marriage.’ The concept of a honeymoon being tied into a vacation or trip did not occur until the 18th century. Dr. Samuel Johnson stated the honeymoon was ‘The first month after marriage, when there is nothing but tenderness and pleasure,’ comparing it to the moon which begins to wane as soon as it is full. Many dictionaries described the honeymoon as “the period of waning affections.”
Even if it is only a legend, drink of cup of mead with your beloved and watch the moon grow full again.
Sources: Cambridge Dictionary of American English, WWWebster Dictionary, WordWizard, Jesse’s Word of the Day,Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Dave Wilton’s Etymology Page, A Word With You
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/history_of_wor ds/34115
Dutch
[edit] Noun
marina f.
1. (Flemish) common, ordinary girl (often with a pejorative meaning)
See also: johnny’s en marina’s (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/johnny%27s_en_marin a%27s)
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/marina#Dutch
Although a Harbor full of small boats is pretty cute too! ;P
Dear Marina,
My name means: ‘Handsome’, and my other name is fascinating too, to say but the least!
I am ‘Handsome’ by nature and ‘Handsome’ by appearance and victorious in my other name.
Great video, could I have a belated card and could you find out the origins of belated, thank you, from your loving student,
jcnick.
very good