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Mason
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronunciation: MAY-son
Meaning & History
Taken from an English surname meaning "stoneworker," which is derived from an Old French word of Germanic origin (similar to Old English macian "to make").
Vena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indian
Pronunciation: (possibly) vee-NAH, or vay-NAH
Meaning & History
Derived from Sanskrit, meaning "yearning."
Baruch
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Hebrew
Pronunciation: (English) ba-ROOK, BER-ook, BAR-ook, BAHR-ook
Meaning & History
Means "blessed" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament, this was the name of a companion of the prophet Jeremiah. A famous bearer was Baruch Spinoza, a Dutch-Jewish rationalist philosopher.
Gwyn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronunciation: GWINN
Meaning & History
Means "white, fair, blessed" in Welsh.
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronunciation: MAY-son
Meaning & History
Taken from an English surname meaning "stoneworker," which is derived from an Old French word of Germanic origin (similar to Old English macian "to make").
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Indian
Pronunciation: (possibly) vee-NAH, or vay-NAH
Meaning & History
Derived from Sanskrit, meaning "yearning."
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Hebrew
Pronunciation: (English) ba-ROOK, BER-ook, BAR-ook, BAHR-ook
Meaning & History
Means "blessed" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament, this was the name of a companion of the prophet Jeremiah. A famous bearer was Baruch Spinoza, a Dutch-Jewish rationalist philosopher.
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Welsh
Pronunciation: GWINN
Meaning & History
Means "white, fair, blessed" in Welsh.
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To each is given a bag of tools,
A shapeless mass, and a book of rules,
And each must make, ere life is flown,
A stumbling block or a stepping stone.
-Anonymous-