User:SnowyCinema/Etymologies of usernames

See also: User:Daniel Carrero/Genders

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If I forgot to add a username, it doesn't mean I don't like you or something, but I just forgot about it (since there are a lot). Feel free to add yourself or other users to this page.

If your username has a ?, it means that I don't know your username's etymology yet. If you feel comfortable, please add that information for me. Thanks!

A

• user:AG202: ?
• user:Al-Muqanna: Arabic المقنع, which apparently means "the masked one", though we don't have an entry for it yet.
• user:AmazingJus: amazing + Jus (shortening of Justin, his real name)
• user:Anarhistička Maca: Serbo-Croatian Anarhistička (“anarchist”) + Maca (“kitty”) (diminutive, hypocoristic), from mačka (“cat”)
• user:Andreyyshore: Andrey (intended to be anglification of his real name Romanian Andrei) + Shore; containing erroneous -y- likely by doubling of the first name from his username
• user:Apisite: Beestone, a term which could be another name for a gemstone called bumblebee jasper
• user:Ardahan Karabağ: his real name and surname; Ardahan + Karabağ
• user:Arlo Barnes: Arlo +‎ Barnes — wallet name, dating from a time before they starting including a middle name James (after Joyce) which itself was before the era of various fun arbitrary screen names.
  • American Sign Language [Term?] name sign: A +‎ @ +‎ backhead with motion depending on length of hair at the time: circular for 'bald', or flowing for 'ponytail'.
• user:AryamanA: his real name; Aryaman + last initial
• user:Atitarev: his real name; Anatoli + Titarev

B

• User:BD2412: first and middle initials + ? (hours in a day is probably involved somehow)
• User:Bequw: ?
• User:Bhagadatta: Sanskrit भगदत्त (bhagadatta, “given by God”)
• User:Biolongvistul: blend of biologul (“the biologist”) and lingvistul (“the linguist”). First interest has subsided, the latter remains.
• User:Bogdan: Bogdan, a male given name
• User:Bree Parker: their real name
• User:BrightSunMan: originated as an alternative form of the wanted name User:SunnyMoon (which is possibly a deprecated or missing account), from Sunny (nickname of my brother, from ?) + Moon (from মুন্নু ("munnu"), my nickname and our own family version of মুন্না ("munna"), cf. मुन्ना ("munna")).
• User:BurakD53: Burak + D + 53, his real name.

C

• User:Camelista27: from Camel (cigarette) + 27
  • User:Theluckystriker05: from Lucky Strike + 05, clipping of 2005 (year when user was born)
  • User:AverageSampoernaAEnjoyer: from average + Sampoerna A (Indonesian cigarette brand) + enjoyer
  • User:MLDGuaDimana: from MLD (another Indonesian cigarette brand, known by the name Djarum Super Mild) + gua + dimana (lit. Where's my (pack of) MLD?)
• User:Catonif: "jk it's just a distortion of my real name"
• User:Chuck Entz: Chuck + Entz, his real name.
• User:CitationsFreak: Citations (those quotes that Wiktionary has) + sense 7 of freak.
• User:Conrad.Irwin: Conrad + Irwin, his real name.
• User:Corypight: probably a rearrangement of copyright to make a reference to the name Cory.
• User:Crom daba: Blend of Crom Duabh +‎ Hromi Daba

D

• User:Daniel Carrero: Daniel + Carrero, his real name
• User:Dan Polansky: Dan + Polansky, his real name
• User:DCDuring: his real name
• User:DDG9912: Danisht, a variant of Danish + Dzakwan (real names) + Greyhouse (formerly Goodnight) + 9912 (after the handle of my YouTube channel).
  • User:JeromeWillettID: Jerome + Willett + ID.
  • User:DanielWhernchend: Daniel + self-made Whernchend, from Proto-Germanic *Hwēranakindą and ultimately Proto-Indo-European *Kʷērono- +‎ *ǵenh₁tóm ("child of the cause"). The first part was intended to be distantly related to the Indonesian borrowing karena.
  • User:DanishtD: Danisht, a variant of Danish + D, initial of his last name, Dzakwan (cf. his current YouTube channel).
    • User:BengkelBerkah05: bengkel + berkah + 05, in reference to his former YouTube channel name (in turn from a defunct workshop in Kepahiang Regency, Indonesia).
• User:Dejongstebroer: from Dutch de jongste broer, literally “the youngest brother”
• User:DerekWinters: a made-up name
• User:Dixtosa: weirdly from Bridgestone after several phonetic iterations... he used to watch F1 as a kid.
• User:Djkcel: from DJ (used to be a DJ) + k (first initial) + shortening of Turkish Çelebi, an Ottoman title
• User:Donnanz: blend of Donald +‎ NZ (“New Zealand”) ?
• User:DPUH: initials of full name
• User:DTLHS: intentionally mysterious
  • User:Nadando: nadando

E

• User:Eiliv: from Norwegian Eiliv, the name of the contributor.
• User:Einstein2: from Einstein + 2
• User:Eirikr: from Old Norse Eiríkr. Útlendi is a conjugation of an Old Norse word meaning 'foreigner'.
• User:Equinox: from equinox: "chosen when I was a student and had horrible sleeping patterns (as much day as night): still true."
• User:Erayreperit: from Eray, his nickname on the Internet + Latin reperit (“(he/she) finds, discovers”). See also User:Erayreperit#Etymology for a detailed history of the nickname; also #W for the etymology of his former username, Wiki6421.
• User:Erutuon: a crappy Quenya translation of my real name, Gabriel

F

• User:Fay Freak: ?
• User:Fehufanga: from Proto-Germanic *fehufangą
• User:Fenakhay: ?
• User:Frigoris: a place on the moon.
• User:Fytcha: intentionally mysterious

G

• User:Gamren: ?
• User: GKØN440: Gravity concept with a k; ø represents a Lagrange point or null; + 440
• User:Gnosandes: a metaplasm from the term Gnossiennes by French composer Éric Alfred Leslie Satie
• User:Guldrelokk: ?

H

• User:Hekaheka: Possibly a childish or comedic reduplication of Heka, a nickname for the male name Heikki.
• User:Houflings: Back-formation of Houfon, probably stemmed for 方 (ほう) or 法 (ほう). Compare Housing, Houfel, Houfob, this user's other usernames on other platforms. Not related to Hoeflings.
• User:Human-potato hybrid: inspired by couch potato (a slang term for a lazy person). The name implies that, more than just jest, they're actually part potato.

I

• User:Imetsia: from иметься (imetʹsja, “to be, to be present, (to) there is”), but with poor transliteration. From a period in his life when he was interested in the Russian language. Also meant to connote availability, presence, or dependability.
• User:Imranqazi90: his real name, Imran +‎ Qazi + 90
• User:Inqilābī: Classical Persian انقلابی (inqilābī, “a revolutionary”)
  • User signature from Latin dictātor mundī (“dictator of the world”)
• User:Ioaxxere: /aɪəwəksɛɹ/ "a random cool-looking name" from 2016
• User:Isomorphyc: from isomorphic? possibly relevant: Isomorphyc has a bot named OrphicBot
• User:Itidal: from Turkish itidal (“equilibrium, temperance”)
• User:ItMarki: it (corruption of it's, as in "it's Marki") +‎ Mark (his real name) +‎ -i (meaningless suffix)
• User:IvanScrooge98: Ivan (his real name) +‎ Scrooge (after Scrooge McDuck, a fictional character he is fond of) +‎ 98 (short for 1998, the year when he was born)

J

• User:JacobSanchez295: from Jacob + Sanchez + 295
  • user:ArdiPras95: Ardhi +‎ Prasmono +‎ 95, his real name, except the first two elements were shortened
• User:Jagwar: alteration of jaguar
• User:Jberkel: his real name; blend of Jan +‎ Berkel
• User:Justinrleung: Justin + R. + Leung, his real name

K

• User:kc kennylau: Kenny + Lau / 劉／刘 (liú) + 健聰／健聪 (jiàn cōng) (Lau Kin Chung), his real name
• User:Kephir: from kephir; alternative form of kefir (a type of bacterially-fermented milk)
• User:Kiwima: Kiwi + ?; Kiwima is a New Zealander
• User:Koavf: "chosen as an acronym for "king of all Vext fans", a reference to a contest [Koavf] entered for the comic book Vext in the 1990s."
• User:Kutchkutch: reduplication of Kutch, a region in South Asia
• User:Kwamikagami: Kwame + 鏡 (“mirror”), a pun on the last name Miller

L

• User:Lambiam: ? (When asked whether the name was from Latin lambo (“I lick”), Lambiam responded that it was from lamb + I + am)
• User:Leasnam: "It's a coinage of mine taken from Old English roots meaning "false name" (lēas +‎ nama)."
• User:ɶLerman: symbol ɶ + surname Lerman (Belarusian Ле́рман (Ljérman))
• User:Lingo Bingo Dingo: ?
• User:Linshee: ?

M

• User:Mahagaja: from Sanskrit महागज (mahāgaja, “big elephant”)
  • User:Angr: from the first two letters of his real first and last names (and not from Old Norse angr!)
• User:Malku H₂n̥rés: his etymological real name, compound of *malku (nominative singular of Proto-Semitic *malk-) + *h₂n̥rés (genitive singular of Proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr).
• User:Mellohi!: derived from the name of a song in Minecraft
  • User:Hillcrest98: randomly concocted to look like a surname + number combo. Current signature derived from the name of a song in Minecraft
• User:Metaknowledge: “Metaknowledge or Μετά knowledge? Or maybe knowledge is my meta...”
• User:Mglovesfun: his initials M.G. + loves fun
  • User:Renard Migrant: anagram of Martin + Gardner, his real name
• User:Mnemosientje: blend of Mnemosyne + appelsientje
• User:Moonpulsar: blend of Moon + Pulsar
• User:Myrelia: ?

N

• User:Nicodene: "from Nico, short for Nicholas, with random extra material added for the sake of a unique username"

P

• User:Panda10: from panda + 10
• User:Pingku: an obsolete transliteration of Kaurna bingu (“bilby”).
• User:Prahlad balaji - from my first own name + the first name of my father.
• User:PseudoSkull: pseudo- +‎ skull
  • User:LalalalaSta: English, random combination, but resembles la#Etymology 2 repeated 4 times + sta (from star)
  • User:NativeCat: English, random combination of words, native +‎ cat
  • User:Philmonte101: from Villa Philmonte, Philmonte allegedly being a Spanishesque form of Philmont that's not currently attested on its own, + the number 101
  • User:Ready Steady Yeti: from an episode of Mona the Vampire of the same name, blend of ready, steady, go +‎ yeti
• User:PUC: pas un chat, from il n’y a pas un chat; alternatively, from pète un coup
• User:Purplebackpack89: from purple +‎ backpack + 89

Q

• User:Qehath: from Hebrew קְהָת
  • User:Dick Laurent: pseudonym; Dick +‎ Laurent

R

• User:Rex Aurorum: rex +‎ aurōrum, the last part is a genitive plural form of either aurōra (short of aurōrārum) or aurum (normally singular only).
  • User:Ilham151096: His real name
• User:Rishabhbhat: pseudonym; from Rishabh +‎ Bhat
• User:Robbie SWE: from Robbie (nickname for Robert, the user's name) + SWE (abbreviation for Sweden)
• User:Robert Ullmann: his real name
• User:Rodrigo5260: From Rodrigo, his real name + 5260, a random number
• User:Romanophile: from Romanophile.
  • User:Pilcrow: from pilcrow
  • User:Æ&Œ: from Æ +‎ & +‎ Œ
• User:Rua: from Irish rua (“red”)
  • User:CodeCat: from code +‎ cat
• User:Ruakh: from Hebrew רוח (rúakh, “spirit”)

S

• User:-sche: from the suffix -sche (Although in the "-sche for admin" page, it's a different meaning.)
• User:Sameerhameedy: from Sameer + Hameedy (from Arabic حَمِيد (ḥamīd, “praiseworthy”) + Persian ـی (-ī, “surname forming suffix”)
• User:Samubert96: probably from English names Sam + Ubert + 96
• User:SemperBlotto: from Latin semper (“always”) + blotto (“drunk”)
• User:Ser be etre shi: from ser + be + être + 是 (shì), a string of four copulas
• User:Sgconlaw: short for Singapore constitutional law
• User:Sinonquoi: French sinon + quoi
• User:Stephen G. Brown: Stephen + G. + Brown, his real name
• User:Stelio: Stelio, his real name.
• User: Stríðsdrengur: Faroese stríð (“war”) + Icelandic drengur (“boy”). Literally, “war boy”, an adapted translation for the fictional character Soldier Boy.
• User:Stujul: Blend of Stuart + Julian, his brother's and his real name, respectively.
• User:Svartava: Sanskrit svārtava, coined from सु- (su-, “good, well, excellent, perfect”) + आर्तव (ārtava, “(adjective) seasonable; seasonal; (noun) a section of a year; a flower”)

T

• User:Tashi: from the corruption and clipping of Tachibana from Capitan Tsubasa, a nickname given to me and my twin brother when we were kids
• User:Thadh: ad hoc transliteration of Icelandic það
• User:TheDaveRoss: ?
• User:The dog2: ?
• User:Theknightwho: from the Knights Who Say "Ni!"
• User:TheSilverWolf98: from the + silver + wolf + 98
• User:This, that and the other: from this, that and the other
• User:Tibidibi: ?
• User:Tollef Salemann: the name of a legendary farmer from medieval Norway, nonchurchly canonized as a Christian saint by mountain shepherds of south-eastern Hardangervidda and western Setesdalsheiene.
• User:Tooironic: from too ironic
• User:Tropylium: tropylium

U

• User:Ungoliant MMDCCLXIV: Ungoliant (LotR character) + the year his account was created in AUC

V

• User:Vahagn Petrosyan: Վահագն + Պետրոսյան, his real name
• User:Victar: ?
• User:Vininn126: "It's a corruption of Vinny, cause I was making an account for some flash game website, and I wanted a cool gangster name"
• User:Vorziblix: from an old childhood paracosm, in which "Vorziblix" was considered a common name; further ultimate origin, if any, long since forgotten
• User:Vriullop: initial of Catalan Vicenç (“Vincent”) and riu (“river”) + llop (“wolf”), reversed spelling of poll (“chicken”), folk etymology of my ancestor's home Ripoll. Compare with John Wayne's Rio Lobo and Spanish Guadalupe

W

• User:Widsith: from widsiþ (“long journey, far-traveller”) because he has lived abroad quite a lot
• User:Wiki6421: from wiki and 6421, his former discriminator on Discord.
• User:Wikitiki89: from wiki + tiki (which for [Wikitiki89] is merely an eye rhyme) + childhood favorite number
• User:Whoop whoop pull up: from the ground proximity warning system alert you would hear if you were about to fly into the ground.
• User:Wonderfool: named after a song on Wonderfool (album), from the pronunciation spelling wonderfool (User:Thewayforward: "My name stems back from ^[sic] a song by Everclear that I really liked, called Wonderful. Wonderfool, I thought, sounded really cool in the whole so I adopted it as an online moniker")
  • Wonderfool's other usernames: various reasons
• User:Wyang: ablauted version of the phonologically peculiar toponym Wyong
  • User:Hbrug: from Tibetan འབྲུག ('brug, “Tibetan dragon”)
  • User:Wjcd: from Chinese 維基詞典／维基词典 (Wéijīcídiǎn, “Wiktionary”)