[ANSTHRLD] Name Question - Adelina
Kathleen O'Brien
kobrien at texas.net
Wed Dec 19 20:53:14 PST 2007
>I have a client that would like to use the name Adelina
>and wants to have a Porteguese persona. I looked through
>St. Gabriel's and could only find a name close that was
>Italian (Adalina).
The problem is that <Adelina> is not a Portuguese name. See:
http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/reaney/reaney.cgi?Adeline
Per that page, the origin of the name is Continental Germanic; a
hypocoristic form of <Adelhaid>.
Mari
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