Dice - Coincidence?
Posted by Carol_Noble at 13:35, 23 Sep 2008My married name, Noble, has often been mis-spelt by various companies. It has led me to believe that our educational standards have certainly dropped in recent times. My surname has been spelt, Nobel, Nobbel, Nobbell, Knobel, Knobell. The latter word is actually linked to a German word, and is related to the word, DICE. Now my mother's maiden name is Wurfel, and this too means DICE in German. When I looked at the German/English Dictionary we have both words are placed in the definition of DICE.
How is that for coincidence?
And they say God doesn't play with Dice?
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22 November 2004
2 days 22 hours
The meaning of names changes as people move between countries of different languages. The locals can't pronounce the foreign names, so they assume a local meaning that sounds similar. Then the spelling changes accordingly.
Some of my ancestors had the name Woelk. In German this sounds like the root of the name has to do with "Wolke", meaning cloud. Or maybe Welk, meaning withered (for flowers). In fact the name is originally Czech, and is spelled Vlk, meaning wolf (german W is pronounced like english or czech V). Germans can't pronounce those 3 consonants without a vowel, so they put a weak vowel in the middle.
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12 April 2007
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Seems that God DOES like to play DICE with the Universe after all! ;-)
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