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Brokeback Mountain: Our Community's Common Bond => Brokeback Mountain Open Forum => Topic started by: Adiabatic on December 29, 2006, 11:29:47 pm

Title: What’s in a name? -- Characters & places
Post by: Adiabatic on December 29, 2006, 11:29:47 pm

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Title: Re: What’s in a name?
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on December 30, 2006, 12:44:08 am

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?)

Title: Re: What’s in a name?
Post by: Ellemeno on December 30, 2006, 01:11:20 am

Alma means "soul" in Latin and Spanish.

Title: Re: What’s in a name? -- Characters & places
Post by: fernly on December 30, 2006, 10:41:25 pm

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

Title: Re: What’s in a name? -- Characters & places
Post by: Ellemeno on December 31, 2006, 02:24:47 am

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'

Title: Re: What’s in a name? -- Characters & places
Post by: opinionista on March 24, 2007, 05:10:10 pm

Quote from: goadra on March 24, 2007, 05:03:01 pm

*bumping* the thread

Thank you Goadra. I didn't remember this thread! Maybe Katherine merges the one I opened about the Aguirre surname.