SUGGESTION: various elements of name, renaming, name meaning, foreign names

MJ. Smith
MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,440
edited December 16 in English Forum

Please create a dataset on personal names that contains at a minimum the following data: Event: naming/name change - old name, new name, person doing the naming, reason if known ...This would include all name changes and all cases where the mother is not the one naming the child For theophoric names: name of the God that appears in the name For a "foreign" name: original language, original language name; Hebrew name if there is one For names given an explicit etymology in the Bible

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