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Adiabatic:
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Jeff Wrangler:
Great list!

How about "Del Mar"? I can't give a reference citation for it, and I'm sure this has been discussed elsewhere, but clearly it's intended to signify "in or of the sea." (I think mare is Latin for sea?)

So then you get the full effect: Ennis Del Mar--Island in the Sea (signifies the character's isolation or remoteness?)

Ellemeno:
Alma means "soul" in Latin and Spanish.

fernly:
found these meanings here: http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/

Stoutamire
Americanized form of German Staudenmaier: distinguishing name for a tenant farmer (Meyer) whose farm was situated by a thicket (Staude)

Aguirre
Spanish form of Basque Agirre, a topographic name from Basque ager, agir ‘open space’, ‘pasture’.

Newsome
English (chiefly Yorkshire): habitational name from a place named with the Old English phrase (æt ð?m) neowan husum ‘(at the) new houses’.


additional place names :
Wolf Ears Bar (where Cassie worked in the story - is the name of the bar shown in the movie?)
Black and Blue Eagle Bar
Hail Strew River (their last trip in the story)
Dead Horse Road

Ellemeno:
I always loved the name Stoutamire in the story.

Casper, of course, was "a friendly ghost, the friendliest ghost you know."

Dubois - French for 'of wood', or 'some wood.'  (BBM chat-watchers from the other night - take note!)  :)

Montana - 'mountain' or 'mountainous'

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