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Help[Opinions] Linnet
I've seen several people comment on the name Linnet lately. What do you think of it? I like and think it's oddly pretty, but it also kinda seems like, if the words "lice" and "maggot" had a baby, it would be Linnet.
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I really like Linnet. Doesn't have any special associations with it, excepts for William Butler Yeats' poem "THe Lake Isle Of Innisfree" where linnet's wings are mentioned, so every time I hear the name Linnet I hear it in my head in music arrangement by Cherish The Ladies. It is a very gentle name in my opinion, but not like frilly.
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Lice and maggot ... hm. I do appreciate that it has a grub-like shape to it somehow.
Linnet sounds to me like it should mean "a blob of gray lint found in an innie belly-button."
I dunno ... I think it's not terrible. It just seems very internet-synthetic to me because I've never seen it actually used as a real person's name. Clipped, cute, supposed to evoke a bird but doesn't really.
Linnet sounds to me like it should mean "a blob of gray lint found in an innie belly-button."
I dunno ... I think it's not terrible. It just seems very internet-synthetic to me because I've never seen it actually used as a real person's name. Clipped, cute, supposed to evoke a bird but doesn't really.
This message was edited 12/1/2017, 12:56 AM
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That’s how it’s pronounced!
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I think I mentioned it recently but I don’t remember why! Gender neutral names, maybe? It would be an honouring name for me, because of the first syllable, and I love bird names. I also like that it’s reminiscent of Linnéa (which would also honour) but could be used as a boys’ middle name, in my opinion. Theodore Linnet, maybe?
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It’s not awful, but I can’t say I like it.
I do like Lynette, though. The syllable stress makes all the difference for me.
I do like Lynette, though. The syllable stress makes all the difference for me.
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The etymology given's incomplete: it's also a medieval name derived from names ending in -lina (Linet, Linot, Linnet(t)) and has been in use, although not very often, ever since. Here endeth your nerdery for this evening.
I'm pretty much with you on it. It looks sweet and it's a cute little bird, but the sound is not so great: Linnit. Like 'innit'. Luned is nicer, to me anyway.
I'm pretty much with you on it. It looks sweet and it's a cute little bird, but the sound is not so great: Linnit. Like 'innit'. Luned is nicer, to me anyway.
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Is the Welsh pronunciation given here reasonably accurate?
And, I've seen several claims, apparently reputable, that Lynette is an Anglo version of Luned/Eluned. I haven't researched it, but I've always suspected that a truncated French diminutive of Helene might well be more likely. If anyone knows, you will!
And, I've seen several claims, apparently reputable, that Lynette is an Anglo version of Luned/Eluned. I haven't researched it, but I've always suspected that a truncated French diminutive of Helene might well be more likely. If anyone knows, you will!
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It doesn't feel like a name at all. I know it's a bird, and that it has been used for a name, but that doesn't help.
It just looks and sounds to me like a pinched-up, squeezed way of saying Lynette; too posh to emphaise the oh-so-unhipette.
It just looks and sounds to me like a pinched-up, squeezed way of saying Lynette; too posh to emphaise the oh-so-unhipette.
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