Tuesday, August 09, 2005

What do You mean?

A way to find out the meaning of your surname.

2 comments:

Aleksu said...

Mine means two things depending on the Basque dialect.

1. Side of the hill (mostly in the Hegoalde dialects)

2. Truth (mostly in the Iparralde dialects)

And since my family comes from Iparralde, I am sticking to that one.

dr.v (Not a narcotic Pez dispenser) said...

Blex, that's pretty cool - Truth!

My last name has something to do with "blue", ‘bluish purple’ (from some Latin word meaning ‘thistle’). Presumably the noun tierras ‘lands’ is to be understood, and the reference is to land covered with bluish plants, such as thistles or vines.