Re: Presidential nicknames

Mike Lyle <mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> wrote
>Evan Kirshenbaum wrote:
>> Arcadian Rises <Arcadianrises@aol.com> writes:
>>> On Nov 9, 4:06ï¿½pm, "Mike Lyle"
<mike_lyle...@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>
>>>> Oh, and has anybody said what, if anything, the name "Obama"
means?
>>>
>>> No, but I know "Barak" means thunder in Hebrew.
>>
>> "Lightning".  Thunder is "ra'am".  At least according to
Wikipedia and
>> backed up by Morfix.
>>
>> But, as Roland said, it's actually cognate with "Baruch", which means
>> "blessed".
>>
>> "Obama" is apparently a Luo name that means something like
"bent" or
>> "crooked" (in a physical sense).  My wild guess would be an ancestor
>> who had some sort of physical deformity, perhaps a hunch.[1]
>>
>> [1] I almost wrote "but that's just a hunch", but I thought better of
>>    it.
>
>I believe "Cameron" means "crooked mouth". Absit omen. I wonder
what on
>earth "Brown" could mean.
>
A nose job.
--
Paul
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