adapt from

adapt something from something

to derive something from something else; to create by modifying something else. I adapted my new musical from a novel.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Faustino	-	Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Veera	VE:-rah	Finnish
Miroslav	mee-rah-SLAHF (Russian)	Czech, Slovak, Russian, Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Medieval Slavic
Tivadar	TEEV-aw-dawr	Hungarian
GÉRaldine	-	French
Wenonah	wə-NON-ə	English (Rare)