Antilus
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Post by Antilus on May 1, 2006 8:55:40 GMT -5
I was recently looking through some of my freinds latin work and saw that the word 'Scythe', translated into Latin, is 'Chalby.'
Any coincidence?
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Awakened
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Post by Awakened on May 1, 2006 9:10:41 GMT -5
Probably not, but it sure sounds cool.
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Post by the1truesushiboy on Jan 1, 2011 1:32:59 GMT -5
Mostt of this is copy-pasted from something I wrote elsewhere on the internets, but, as I'm sure everybody already knows, the name is derived from the full name "Chaz Darby" a character from the movie "Airheads", but I was curious to see if it was, at all, a real name, in and of itself. As it turns out, it is, at the very least, a surname. None of my usual resources had an entry for Charby. However, there is a river Char (see Wikipedia) in Great Britian. Other British placenemes (like Darby) take the second element -BY from Old Scandinavian and it means a village or homestead. So perhaps, a conjectured meaning might be "a homestead or village along the Char River". Also, the name Char is equivalant to the name Cerne and comes from the Welsh carn meaning "rock, stones". [Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names, 4th ed.]
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