Base on info I got from another thread in another NG, I went to my
local library and found
_The Writer's Digest Character Naming Sourcebook_ by Sherrilyn Kenyon
w/ Hal Blythe & Charlie Sweet
Writer's Digest Books, 1994

While thumbing thru it I found this:

Jayne(Sanskrit) Victorious
also I found these:
Jayne(Hindi)Victory (almost the same)
Jayne(Hebrew) Gift from God

The bad news (for Jayne Cobb) they are all female names!

For Stargate fans I ran across these:
Jaffa(Hebrew) Beauty (?)Not the first thing that comes to mind when I
hear Jaffa
Woolsey(English) Victorious Wolf (??) a seriously misname character if
there ever was!
MacKay (Scottish) Son of Fire (?)Well he did destroy a planet(or was
it a solarsystem) once

For BSG fans
Starbuck(English) Star-deer, I guess a no brainer, but still whats the
origin behind it and what the heck is a 'star-deer'

I thought it was interesting and wanted to share it with you all


Just my $0.02

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Keith Wetzel AKA Space Cadet wrote:

>
> For BSG fans
> Starbuck(English) Star-deer, I guess a no brainer, but still whats the
> origin behind it and what the heck is a 'star-deer'


That's a translation using the two syllables of the name as separate
parts. In fact "Starbuck" is a contraction of a much older word,
which *isn't* "English". The original literal meaning is "From The
River Where Stakes Were Got" (a place name, which leads to it
becoming a surname, as people often were given the surname that
described where they came from).

Or a more modern, more poetic, meaning is "Challenger of Fate". NEVER
"star-deer".


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Keith Wetzel AKA Space Cadet wrote:
>
> For BSG fans
> Starbuck(English) Star-deer, I guess a no brainer, but still whats the
> origin behind it and what the heck is a 'star-deer'

There was Bambi, but I can't think of any other deer that have been the
star of a movie or TV show. ;-)

In article <190320080907019635%anybody@anywhere-anytime.com>,
Anybody <anybody@anywhere-anytime.com> wrote:

> Keith Wetzel AKA Space Cadet wrote:
> >
> > For BSG fans
> > Starbuck(English) Star-deer, I guess a no brainer, but still whats the
> > origin behind it and what the heck is a 'star-deer'
>
> There was Bambi, but I can't think of any other deer that have been the
> star of a movie or TV show. ;-)

Buck Rogers.

And Wilma Deering.

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Anim8rFSK <ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net> did eloquently scribble:
> In article <190320080907019635%anybody@anywhere-anytime.com>,
> Anybody <anybody@anywhere-anytime.com> wrote:

>> Keith Wetzel AKA Space Cadet wrote:
>> >
>> > For BSG fans
>> > Starbuck(English) Star-deer, I guess a no brainer, but still whats the
>> > origin behind it and what the heck is a 'star-deer'
>>
>> There was Bambi, but I can't think of any other deer that have been the
>> star of a movie or TV show. ;-)

> Buck Rogers.

> And Wilma Deering.

John Doe appears in lots of programmes.
:)
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In article <96t7b5-o4l.ln1@ridcully.ntlworld.com>, spike1@freenet.co.uk
wrote:

> Anim8rFSK <ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net> did eloquently scribble:
> > In article <190320080907019635%anybody@anywhere-anytime.com>,
> > Anybody <anybody@anywhere-anytime.com> wrote:
>
> >> Keith Wetzel AKA Space Cadet wrote:
> >> >
> >> > For BSG fans
> >> > Starbuck(English) Star-deer, I guess a no brainer, but still whats the
> >> > origin behind it and what the heck is a 'star-deer'
> >>
> >> There was Bambi, but I can't think of any other deer that have been the
> >> star of a movie or TV show. ;-)
>
> > Buck Rogers.
>
> > And Wilma Deering.
>
> John Doe appears in lots of programmes.
> :)

And Jane Doe, which is more appropriate. "John Buck" would make more
sense. ;-)