Berny

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Variant of BERNIE.

BERNIE   male & female   English
Diminutive of BERNARD, BERNADETTE, BERNICE, and other names beginning with Bern.
BERNARD   male   English, French, Dutch, Polish, Croatian, Slovene, Czech, Ancient Germanic
Derived from the Germanic element bern "bear" combined with hard "brave, hardy". The Normans brought it to England, where it replaced the Old English cognate Beornheard. This was the name of several saints, including Saint Bernard of Menthon who built hospices in the Swiss Alps in the 10th century, and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, a 12th-century theologian and Doctor of the Church. Other famous bearers include the Irish playwright and essayist George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) and the British World War II field marshal Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976).
BERNADETTE   female   French, English
French feminine form of BERNARD. Saint Bernadette was a young woman from Lourdes in France who claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary.
BERNARD   male   English, French, Dutch, Polish, Croatian, Slovene, Czech, Ancient Germanic
Derived from the Germanic element bern "bear" combined with hard "brave, hardy". The Normans brought it to England, where it replaced the Old English cognate Beornheard. This was the name of several saints, including Saint Bernard of Menthon who built hospices in the Swiss Alps in the 10th century, and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, a 12th-century theologian and Doctor of the Church. Other famous bearers include the Irish playwright and essayist George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) and the British World War II field marshal Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976).
BERNICE   female   English, Biblical, Biblical Latin
Contracted form of BERENICE. It occurs briefly in Acts in the New Testament belonging to a sister of King Herod Agrippa II.
BERENICE   female   English, Italian, Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Latinized form of Βερενικη (Berenike), the Macedonian form of the Greek name Φερενικη (Pherenike), which meant "bringing victory" from φερω (phero) "to bring" and νικη (nike) "victory". This name was common among the Ptolemy ruling family of Egypt, a dynasty which was originally from Macedon. It occurs briefly in Acts in the New Testament (in most English Bibles it is spelled Bernice) belonging to a sister of King Herod Agrippa II. As an English name, Berenice came into use after the Protestant Reformation.
FULL FORMS
ENGLISH: Berenice, Bernadette, Bernadine, Bernard, Bernice, Berniece, Veronica
EQUIVALENTS
ANCIENT GERMANIC: Berard, Berinhard, Bernard, Bernhard
ANCIENT GREEK: Berenice, Berenike, Pherenike
BASQUE: Beñat
BIBLICAL GREEK: Bernike
BIBLICAL LATIN: Bernice
BIBLICAL: Bernice
BULGARIAN: Veronika
CATALAN: Bernat
CROATIAN: Bernard, Bernarda, Veronika
CZECH: Bernard, Veronika
DANISH: Bernhard, Bernt, Veronika
DUTCH: Barend, Ben, Bernard, Bernhard
ENGLISH: Barney, Bernetta, Bernie, Bunny, Roni, Ronnie
FRENCH: Bérénice, Bernadette, Bernard, Bernardine, Véronique
FRISIAN: Bent
GERMAN: Benno, Bernd, Bernhard, Veronika
HUNGARIAN: Bernadett, Bernát, Veronika
ITALIAN: Berardo, Berenice, Bernardetta, Bernardina, Bernardino, Bernardo, Dina, Veronica
LATE ROMAN: Veronica
LATVIAN: Veronika
LITHUANIAN: Veronika
MACEDONIAN: Veronika
NORWEGIAN: Bernhard, Bernt, Veronika
POLISH: Bernard, Wera, Weronika
PORTUGUESE: Bernardino, Bernardo, Verônica
ROMANIAN: Veronica
RUSSIAN: Nika, Veronika
SLOVAK: Veronika
SLOVENE: Bernard, Bernarda, Veronika
SORBIAN: Weronika
SPANISH: Bernarda, Bernardino, Bernardita, Bernardo, Verónica
SWEDISH: Bernhard, Bernt, Veronika
DIMINUTIVES AND SHORT FORMS
CROATIAN: Dino
ENGLISH: Netta
ITALIAN: Dino
MASCULINE FORMS
ANCIENT GERMANIC: Berard, Berinhard, Bernard, Bernhard
BASQUE: Beñat
CATALAN: Bernat
CROATIAN: Bernard, Dino
CZECH: Bernard
DANISH: Bernhard, Bernt
DUTCH: Barend, Ben, Bernard, Bernhard
ENGLISH: Barney, Bernard, Bernie
FRENCH: Bernard
FRISIAN: Bent
GERMAN: Benno, Bernd, Bernhard
HUNGARIAN: Bernát
ITALIAN: Berardo, Bernardino, Bernardo, Dino
NORWEGIAN: Bernhard, Bernt
POLISH: Bernard
PORTUGUESE: Bernardino, Bernardo
SLOVENE: Bernard
SPANISH: Bernardino, Bernardo
SWEDISH: Bernhard, Bernt
FEMININE FORMS
CROATIAN: Bernarda
ENGLISH: Bernadette, Bernadine, Bernie
FRENCH: Bernadette, Bernardine
HUNGARIAN: Bernadett
ITALIAN: Bernardetta, Bernardina, Dina
SLOVENE: Bernarda
SPANISH: Bernarda, Bernardita
OTHER FORMS
FRENCH: Vérène
GERMAN: Verena, Vreni
LATE ROMAN: Verena