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Help[Facts] Re: Homophonic Neonyms...
in reply to a message by Sabertooth
"You are making my point for me. Even though the variant of BLAISE is its traditional etymology, you can't rule out that one (or more) of the others wasn't the intention of the parents. [...] but you must not impose that interpretation, if his parents clearly were naming him [fiery], [forerunner], etc."
No. Just no. Just like you said, you can't impose interpretation, you can only go by clearly defined defintions of names based on the present study of etymology. Also, how do you know the parents were "clearly" naming him with a seperate meaning unless they explicitly mention it? That brings up the ideology that then any meaning is acceptable. For example, if I name my kid Blaze and want it to mean "God of the Phoenix in a fiery sky" then I can, and it should be included as a well-accepted meaning of the word as a name? No. Etymology doesn't work that way. Behindthename.com is not like the other baby name sites in that regard. I feel as though you are really pushing this issue because you did something similar with the names of your kids, and somehow you want to legitimize your meanings.
"That iteration of 'blaze' almost always implies 'a trail,' whether literally or figuratively."
Again, no. No, it doesn't.
No. Just no. Just like you said, you can't impose interpretation, you can only go by clearly defined defintions of names based on the present study of etymology. Also, how do you know the parents were "clearly" naming him with a seperate meaning unless they explicitly mention it? That brings up the ideology that then any meaning is acceptable. For example, if I name my kid Blaze and want it to mean "God of the Phoenix in a fiery sky" then I can, and it should be included as a well-accepted meaning of the word as a name? No. Etymology doesn't work that way. Behindthename.com is not like the other baby name sites in that regard. I feel as though you are really pushing this issue because you did something similar with the names of your kids, and somehow you want to legitimize your meanings.
"That iteration of 'blaze' almost always implies 'a trail,' whether literally or figuratively."
Again, no. No, it doesn't.
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