The Name That Is Also An Adjective

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  • @NameExplain
    @NameExplain  2 роки тому +8

    Can you believe people pay me to do this? You can be one of those people! www.patreon.com/nameexplain

    • @Bibibosh
      @Bibibosh 2 роки тому

      mark is a funny name
      jack is too
      anne is also
      Mark the Jack Anne (with a piece of chalk)

    • @duncandewar9885
      @duncandewar9885 2 роки тому

      Duncan is a great name to explain

    • @xavierwalko4175
      @xavierwalko4175 2 роки тому

      Nice Optimus Primal and Optimus Prime figures you have there.

    • @brianedwards7142
      @brianedwards7142 2 роки тому

      What about my surname? all I can find are etymologies of Edward but I wonder if the s is possessive indicating that I had an ancestor who worked or soldiered for Longshanks.

  • @malorika
    @malorika 2 роки тому +54

    i thought this was gonna be about the name Sandy

    • @brandonmack111
      @brandonmack111 2 роки тому +11

      Or Frank

    • @Illumisepoolist
      @Illumisepoolist 2 роки тому +3

      I thought it would be Harry.

    • @thespecialduck5030
      @thespecialduck5030 2 роки тому +1

      i thought it was gonna be richard

    • @lysaali50
      @lysaali50 2 роки тому

      i thought it would be Gerry/Jerry/Terry

    • @jasond.b-w
      @jasond.b-w 2 роки тому +4

      I was wondering if it could be Ernest, Precious, Tanner, or Abel, but only two of those are actually spelled like the adjective. (Any color name like Amber, Ebony, or Jade could also work, but that seemed too obvious!)

  • @Kameliius
    @Kameliius 2 роки тому +28

    Actually, in German, there's also the name of "Kurt", which comes from "Konrad". I believe it's due to the Old German spelling of "Konrad", that would be spelled something like "Kunrad", which during the language shift couple of hundred of years ago, turned "Kunrad" into "Kunrat" in some German speaking areas, therefore, the short form of "Kunrat" would be "Kurt".
    However, it could just be that the name of "Kurt" evolved like something similar like you said, because we also have names like "Josef" or "Joseph" that transform into their short variant of "Sepp" or "Seppl" somehow

    • @grungemunkey
      @grungemunkey 2 роки тому +1

      I knew a Finnish dude nammed seppel

  • @aaronodonoghue1791
    @aaronodonoghue1791 2 роки тому +19

    I used to think Kurt was short for Curtis (before I saw it written down of course). Which may explain the "courteous" thing... Also the word for "short" in a lot of Romance languages is similar to "curt"

    • @tobiaslidstromstre2392
      @tobiaslidstromstre2392 2 роки тому +4

      Also in most germanic languages, «kort» in swedish, norwegian, danish and dutch, and «kurz» in german

    • @JediSimpson
      @JediSimpson 2 роки тому +3

      The only “Curtis” I knew spelled his name “Kurtis”.

    • @aaronodonoghue1791
      @aaronodonoghue1791 2 роки тому +4

      @@tobiaslidstromstre2392 I knew "kurz" was German for "short", I just didn't know the rest, so thanks for adding those. I wonder how did English not end up with an initial /k/ sound for "short" like the other Germanic languages?

  • @ellynecrow4601
    @ellynecrow4601 2 роки тому +3

    It's always a Rosy day when you upload videos. I cozy up in my Terry cloth robe and enjoy the Frank conversation.

  • @rdbury507
    @rdbury507 2 роки тому +2

    Name that's also an adverb: If you've seen the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang movie then the answer is obvious -- *Truly* Scrumptious.

    • @psiphiorg
      @psiphiorg 2 роки тому

      For a non-fictional Truly, there's Truly Shattuck, an actress in the late 1800's and early 1900's. It was a stage name (her birth name was reportedly Clarice), but it's a cool name nonetheless.

  • @williamsurname4669
    @williamsurname4669 2 роки тому +5

    A name I find odd is the Norwegian name Odd.

  • @pennywaldrip3774
    @pennywaldrip3774 2 роки тому +3

    Married to a Curt... (Curtis). And boy, is he curt!

  • @rowboat8343
    @rowboat8343 2 роки тому +2

    My daughter has decided she hates 90s music. Every time a song comes on from the 90s she groans and complains while I turn it up and sing along. I was a teen in the 90s so that's my jam. My daughter is 11. She has a lot to learn yet lol.

  • @grungemunkey
    @grungemunkey 2 роки тому +6

    Curtis means courteous. Courtney is an alternative & the feminine, variation of Curtis.

  • @phs125
    @phs125 2 роки тому +6

    Today I was playing squaredle and it doesn't accept names as a valid word. But I got surprised when it accepted PETER.
    Apparently it has a meaning. "It was going so well, but petered out immediately"

    • @qwertyTRiG
      @qwertyTRiG 2 роки тому +1

      I usually think of paths through the woods which peter out unexpectedly.

  • @helgemo7026
    @helgemo7026 2 роки тому +4

    The C/K thing might be explained when looking at the spelling of Conrad in german. Because often, Conrad is spelled Konrad in german, so maybe thats where we get the K in Kurt as well

  • @brianedwards7142
    @brianedwards7142 2 роки тому +2

    I go for the cavalier look. I didn't think the hairdresser would immediately know what Charles II looked like so I said "can you cut it like General Custer" (despite my antipathy for the man) . She said "I don't know who that is. I don't watch that show." 🤔

    • @dannypipewrench533
      @dannypipewrench533 2 роки тому +2

      Darn hairdressers know nothing about history.
      That is more or less what my hair looks like, too, but I do not really maintain it, besides washing. No hairdressers, no hair cuts.

  • @duncandewar9885
    @duncandewar9885 2 роки тому +2

    the German X-Men character Nightcrawler is named Kurt Wagner.

  • @patrickchoque7720
    @patrickchoque7720 2 роки тому +2

    Is that a Lego Bag-End??

  • @A_Salty_Fishe
    @A_Salty_Fishe 2 роки тому +3

    I'm a simple man. I see Mr Cobain, I click

  • @kurtwomersley691
    @kurtwomersley691 2 роки тому

    Can't even escape Curtis in a video about my name. Always asked if my name it's short for Curtis

  • @Emperor_Oshron
    @Emperor_Oshron 2 роки тому

    i''m very late to this, but my own immediate thought on "Kurt" as a shortening of another name was from "Kurtwood", like actor Kurtwood Smith (among other roles, he was Red Foreman, the dad, in _That 70's Show_ )

  • @HalfEye79
    @HalfEye79 2 роки тому

    In the 80s, there was in Germany the song "Hier kommt Kurt" ("Her comes Kurt") from Frank Zander. It`s really funny.

  • @teoman2495
    @teoman2495 2 роки тому +1

    Fun fact: Kurt also means wolf in Turkish

  • @snokelpops
    @snokelpops 2 роки тому +1

    Yay, my name!

  • @shawnwier7471
    @shawnwier7471 2 роки тому

    *likes Mario* “I’m a big WEEB” PATRICK WHAT LOL

  • @chrisrosenkreuz23
    @chrisrosenkreuz23 2 роки тому +5

    wait, Cobain's name was also Frank?

  • @n1hondude
    @n1hondude 2 роки тому

    I'm not sure you made a video about the name "Peter" but that's also a verb that I learned from the mobile game "wordscapes" although I ALWAYS forget the meaning, maybe I'd be more likely to remember from your video!!

  • @RavenFilms
    @RavenFilms 2 роки тому

    I’m the one that asked about your Grateful Dead bears…. Anyway, it’s been so hard to get a good look and all I saw was a blur of 4 different colors with the same spacing. Seeing as the tattoo next to it was music I thought perhaps that was too and it was the best guess I had. Mario is WAAAY color! I have a Zelda one on my forearm, the prompt to play Song Of Storms, mixes with the royal crest and Hylian text saying Song of Storms under it. It’s BY FAR, my favorite tattoo.

  • @Hyblup
    @Hyblup 2 роки тому +1

    Then there’s the verb name ‘Nick’

  • @JonMI6
    @JonMI6 2 роки тому +1

    That was a short video. All jokes aside, I had a professor with the last name of Kurt

  • @siyacer
    @siyacer 2 роки тому +1

    Kurtmaxxing

  • @parabolaaaaa4919
    @parabolaaaaa4919 2 роки тому +2

    oh so curt is like court in french

  • @k.umquat8604
    @k.umquat8604 2 роки тому

    Keep up the good work!

  • @manunaharneac7335
    @manunaharneac7335 2 роки тому +2

    Kurt Vonnegut

  • @molLluaga
    @molLluaga 2 роки тому +1

    Konrad in German is mostly spelled with a K, so that is probably where the K instead of C comes in Kurt

  • @Plasmathedeathjester
    @Plasmathedeathjester 2 роки тому +1

    I thought Kurt was short for Curtis

    • @wumbr6467
      @wumbr6467 2 роки тому

      Konrad > Kort > Kurt

  • @justjohnn
    @justjohnn 2 роки тому

    Haven't seen a video on the names Hope, Grace, etc. I was wondering why we can call girls these attributes but I can't think of any male names that are attributes.

  • @desirusin13624
    @desirusin13624 2 роки тому +3

    COUld you do rare/ unusual names like my own? There are only 5 men Desirus alive in this world. I am one of them. Please suggest this to the Patreon voters. Thank you.

  • @davidroddini1512
    @davidroddini1512 2 роки тому

    I thought Kurt was from Curtis.
    Edit: You learn something new every day. Kurt was short for Conrad; Curt was short for Curtis, Kert was short for Kermit and Cert... is CERTainly different!

  • @FairyCRat
    @FairyCRat 2 роки тому

    2 of my high school friends in France had names that were also adjectives: Clément (meaning "merciful") and Angélique (meaning, well... angelic)

    • @hibbiea8841
      @hibbiea8841 2 роки тому

      Does rahma and malaika also mean merciful and angelic

  • @SuprousOxide
    @SuprousOxide 2 роки тому

    Thought you said Conrad had come from CORNY and Rad.
    I like that. Kurt's a great guy, he's a little corny, but still rad

  • @Jewish_Israeli_Zionist
    @Jewish_Israeli_Zionist 2 роки тому

    Hi. In Hebrew we have a have a name which is also a question - Michael.

  • @droberts7757
    @droberts7757 Рік тому

    What about (Kurt) Wagner a.k.a nightcrawler from marvel

  • @KINGHB190
    @KINGHB190 2 роки тому

    You should make a video about the name Harry

  • @YoFreshWiggy
    @YoFreshWiggy 2 роки тому

    Name suggestion:
    Elgen. Often spelled Elgin
    Pronounced; El-Ge(the “e” is spoken in French) -n,
    or Ellen but the 2nd L is now a G.
    Often miss pronounced; El-Gin (as though I’m a bottle of Gin from Mexico), Elgan, Elgon, Algan, Allen…
    Yeah, I’d like to find out the origins/name explain of my name, Elgen.

  • @cannedfrootloops7803
    @cannedfrootloops7803 2 роки тому +1

    My middle name is Moody. Yaaay.

  • @Benni777
    @Benni777 2 роки тому

    “I’m a bit of a weeb.”
    As an American, is being a “weeb” the same as being a “nerd?” Kinda sounds like it would be. 🤔☺️

  • @Illumisepoolist
    @Illumisepoolist 2 роки тому

    I named my litten after Kurt Angle. (Even though she's a girl.)

  • @selenajarv8763
    @selenajarv8763 2 роки тому

    The word kurt means deaf in Estonian

  • @DylanoTheWizard
    @DylanoTheWizard 2 роки тому

    Very cool.
    -Dylano

  • @Mrs._Fenc
    @Mrs._Fenc 2 роки тому +1

    I THOUGHT YOU MEANT SHAGGY, NOT (K/C)URT

  • @violetedge83
    @violetedge83 2 роки тому

    This is my Dad and Bro's name 🖤🖤🖤

  • @likebot.
    @likebot. 2 роки тому

    Sly and Sandy are adjective names I think.

  • @Steveofthejungle8
    @Steveofthejungle8 2 роки тому

    What about Curtis?

  • @Kayem06
    @Kayem06 2 роки тому +1

    Can you please do the name "Kerr"

  • @f0-f09
    @f0-f09 2 роки тому +1

    I'm kinda afraid on why Kurt Cobain is in the thumbnail

    • @riotandhalf
      @riotandhalf 2 роки тому +1

      he is here now, entertain him

  • @Me1le
    @Me1le 2 роки тому

    I thought this would be about Harry

  • @brianedwards7142
    @brianedwards7142 2 роки тому

    What about Lorne? 🤠

  • @youareweirdforreadingthis
    @youareweirdforreadingthis 2 роки тому

    Curt Kobain

  • @10_Inch_Smile
    @10_Inch_Smile 2 роки тому

    whoever mixed the audio for this belongs in prison, that shit at the beginning was so deafeningly loud compared to the rest of this video.

  • @EMNstar
    @EMNstar 2 роки тому

    Curtis?

  • @ToastGreeting
    @ToastGreeting 2 роки тому

    I know many names that are nouns

  • @mr.beatfan8814
    @mr.beatfan8814 2 роки тому

    Do the names of Canadian Prime Ministers, please.

  • @parabolaaaaa4919
    @parabolaaaaa4919 2 роки тому +1

    so conrad means comrade

  • @WeyounSix
    @WeyounSix 2 роки тому

    Coinkidink hahaha

  • @b.1162
    @b.1162 2 роки тому

    I've known both a Kurtis and a Curtis and they're both obnoxious.

  • @KurtAnderson812
    @KurtAnderson812 2 роки тому

    I feel very seen

  • @xjing800
    @xjing800 2 роки тому

    Joshing

  • @conrad9289
    @conrad9289 2 роки тому +1

    Finally

    • @aaronstanley6914
      @aaronstanley6914 2 роки тому

      IDK why but your response combined with name reminds me of Conway Stern from archer lol.

    • @conrad9289
      @conrad9289 2 роки тому

      @@aaronstanley6914 lool

  • @Plasmathedeathjester
    @Plasmathedeathjester 2 роки тому

    Never heard of curt way of taking then again America english isn't as silly as British English

    • @SWLinPHX
      @SWLinPHX 2 роки тому +1

      Actually curt is quite a common word, just as common in American English as British English

  • @kelvinstreater
    @kelvinstreater 2 роки тому

    I’m (kinda) early!

  • @odysseas_kratsas
    @odysseas_kratsas 2 роки тому

    hello?

  • @canyounotmydude9155
    @canyounotmydude9155 2 роки тому

    Load up on guns,

  • @malorika
    @malorika 2 роки тому

    me whennim early