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Synolda - I've been digging around on this name for nearly a year now. I know one thing for certain, which is that it was a female name in use in Northern France or among the Norman invaders of Britain. I don't know much more for certain. Conjecture might associate it with 'chennault' a name given to a person who lived near a channel of water (such as the English channel separating England and France) or to the word 'saulte' as in the name of Saulte Sainte Marie, the name of a city on the Saint Mary's river in Ontario, Canada, so named by the French, perhaps, because of the rapids or waterfall located there, as 'saulte' means 'jump' (saltar in Spanish also means 'to jump, and 'salta' would be what you would say if telling someone to jump. Perhaps Synolda is an old French form of some word related to this root. But in the end, it may simply mean 'a waterfall' or perhaps a place on a river where one enters or leaves the river). It 'looks' more like the word 'synod', which is the word used to refer to a church council where doctrinal matters are decided. It comes from the Greek 'synodos' meaning 'assembly' or 'meeting'. It is also worth remembering that 'ot' is a common ending to French names and a often makes a name feminine, so the original form of the name may have looked and sounded different. Which makes me think of the Greek 'xeno' meaning 'stranger' or 'foreign'. The Vikings were strangers, at first, in France, their Norman descendants were 'foreign' to the people of England, and the Anglo Normans who came to Ireland were also. I would like to know for certain the origin and meaning of this name. For now, this will have to suffice.


UPDATE: I came across the name Sinella, a descendant of the Norman invaders of England, and I wonder if this could be related to Synolda?

Torkel - Norse, from "Tor" meaning "Thor" (the god of thunder) and "ketill" meaning "cauldron" so it means "Thor's cauldron" or 'helmet" as ketill can also mean helmet. Usually a male name, but I encountered it as a female name. There is quite a story about how Thor goes about getting a cauldron.

Uli- Germanic form of Ulli, meaning "heritage" or "patrimony". It can also be a short form of the Germanic name Ulrike, meaning "powerful ruler" or an Estonian form of the Latin Ursula, meaning "little female bear". It is also a form of the Irish name "Ula", meaning "sea jewel".

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Welby- Old English, "from the farm by the spring".

Xurxo - Galician form of George.

Yasser - Arabic, meaning "to be rich" from 'yasira' which means "to become easy".