I would not have put Ante alongside Andrew. Ante is short for Anton which is actually Anthony Regards John Stefanac Vice President Sales & Business Development FLEXTRONICS Network Services 2 Changi South Lane Singapore 486123 Tel : +65 6876 9803 Fax : +65 6543 1888 Mob : +65 9018 5886 john.stefanac@sg.flextronics.com -----Original Message----- From: Frank Kurchina [mailto:frankur@worldnet.att.net] Sent: Friday, 7 June 2002 6:30 AM To: CROATIA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [CROATIA-L] Given name - "Goames" (Latin) =James Birkholz= wrote: > > Having returned from reading Lokve (Gorski Kotar region) christening > records and pushing back another generation (we think), we have another new > given name to deal with. > > It looks like "Goames", but might be "Joames" (in one record it looks more > like "Goanly"). I'm guessing this is the latin version perhaps "John". Am I > right? > > What would be the probable spelling of his brothers: > Bartholome?um > Nicolaum > Anastasi > Andream > > I'm pretty confident they translate to: > Bartholomew > Nicolaus/Nikola > ? > Andrew > > Would like to know the Croatian and English versions. > Also for "Michael?", Mattio or Mathio, and Georgius, which I'm sure are > ?/Michael, Mato/Matthew, Gjuro/George... > > Associated surnames are: > Gergurich,Pintar, Burzar,Csoop > > TIA, > James We went through similar exercises at this site recently. George (E) Georgius (L) Gjuro, Djuro, D'uro (Croatian) Juraj (Croatian) Georg (G) György, Gyurko, Gyuri (H) Giorgio (I) Juraj, Jurko, Juro (Sk) Jerzy (P) Gregory (E) Gregorius (L) Gregor (G) Gregely, Gergö, Gerö (H) Grgur (Croatian) Thomas (E) Thomas (L) Thomas (G) Tamás (H) Tomaz (Sl) Tomo (Croatian) Peter (E) Petrus (L) Peter (G) Péter (H) Petar, Pero (Croatian) John (E) Joannes (L) Johann (G) János (H) Janko, Ivo (Croatian) Giovanni (I) Michael (E) Michael (L) Michael (G) Mihály (H) Mihael (Sl) Mihajlo, Miho, Mijo (Croatian) Michele (I) Matthew (E) Matthaeus (L) Mattaus (G) Máté (H) Matija/Matij/Mato/Matko/Mateo/Matan/Mate from Matej (Croatian) Matteo (I) Matthias (E) Matthias (L) Matthias (G) Mátyás (H) Mirko is diminutive for Miroslav/Milan (Croatian) Marko is Mark (E) Marcus (L) Nickolas (E) Nicholas (L) Nicolo (I) Niko, Nikola (C) Andrew (E) Andreas (L) Andreas (G) András (H) Andreja, Andrija, Ante (Croatian) Andrea (I) Bartholomew (E) Bartholomes (L) Bartolomeo (I) Bartel (G) Barta (H) Anastasio is male given name (Italian) for Anastasius (L)