My name-day's today!

[Tigro]

Today's my name-day, so how can I celebrate this day without topic on the GBATemp?

So.. I'm waiting for the greetings!

 

[Jax]

What's a name-day?

 

[Sinkhead]

What's a name-day?

Clicky. I didn't know either until I saw this...

 

[Tigro]

What's a name-day?

http://merriam-webster.com/dictionary/name-day

 

[Sinkhead]

Sto lat!

 

[Veho]

I don't have a name day :'(

Well, according to any normal calender anyway. And it's a pretty common name

 

[Jax]

Well then, my saint would be Saint James.

And Tigro, happy imieniny!

 

[Tigro]

Sto lat!


JaxWell then, my saint would be Saint James.

And Tigro, happy imieniny!

Thank you very much - good to see some words in Polish

 

[Tigro]

Hey, people! Come on, I'm waiting for the greetings!

 

[raulpica]

Happy Name-day

 

[moozxy]

Wow first time hearing of this name day business.. How do you celebrate it? Do you get presents? It sounds like you're hijacking someone else's birthday just cos you got the same name

Happy Name day anways

 

[Caoimhin]

In some families you make parties to celebrate your name day

Well, the adults make parties. They like drinking!
In my age you're lucky by getting some money. My problem is: the name "Kevin" isn't really popular in Poland, so nobody knows when my name-day is

 

[Tigro]

How do you celebrate it?
We meet our family (or friends.. or family and friends

), we talk, we eat.. Something like birthday. Well.. Actually, apart from birthday cake, there are no differences between celebrating name-day and birthday

Do you get presents?
Of course. Not as good as on birthday or Christmas, but we do

QUOTE(moozxy @ Jan 6 2008, 02:46 PM)

Happy Name day anways

Thanks

 

[Mangofett]

Random fact, imeniny is the same word in Russia,, and imeninick means birthday person(the persons whose birthday it is)

 

[Tigro]

and imeninick means birthday person(the persons whose birthday it is)

Not exactly. "Imiennik" is the person, whose name-day is today, not "imeninick"

 

[Veho]

It's imendan in Croatian. It's no big deal here, though. If people happen to notice or know it's your name-day, they congratulate (along with corny jokes on how (in)appropriate your name is), but that's about it.

 

[Mangofett]

and imeninick means birthday person(the persons whose birthday it is)

Not exactly. "Imiennik" is the person, whose name-day is today, not "imeninick"

Imeninick is a form of imenik, usually imeninick is used for younger children.

Or maybe its a relatively common word-butcher.

 

[Tigro]

Imeninick is a form of imenik, usually imeninick is used for younger children.

Erm.. What language are you talking about? I mean - in which language does this "imeninick" and "imenik" exist? I've googled "imeninick", but i haven't found anything.

Hey, people.. So the greetings are over? It's not too late - come on, wish me something wonderful

 

[Mangofett]

...Russian?

 

[Salamantis]

Mine are the 25th July.

Happy name-day!

(I'm Polish too, but my Polish writing sucks bad).