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What Does This Word Mean?!

Lady2

Lady2

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Early in the morning last week, when I was half awake, I had a word stand out to me off a parchment map poster on my wall, it changed in front of me. It spelled itself in a different language, the word 'Anis' (with a dash over the i), pronounced like 'Ann – iss' I think, but I could be wrong there. It was in old Celtic lettering, stayed there for several seconds.

I’m sure it is relevant to a past life of mine in Ireland. I tried to find out if it was an old Irish town name, or just an Irish word that means something translated, but couldn’t figure it out.

Has anyone ever had this kind of experience happen to them, and/or can you help me figure out what it means?
 
I found that it is a girl's name


Anis – pure, chaste; hunger


I found it also is a boy's name


Anis – friendly


It is not very popular as a boy's name, however.
 
Mama2HRB


Thanks - However, that is all I could find as well...The mystery continues. I have never had anything like that experience happen to me before. I figured, as it was so clear, it must be important to me even if I don't understand it yet.


Thanks again -
 
Closest I can get: Welsh ynys or ynis; Irish inis; Scottish Gaelic innis (island). Pronunciation would be 'enis or 'anis. You might be getting a phonetic spelling (which is a big clue on how the word would have been pronounced).
 
Cryscat


Thank you Cryscat, I really truly appreciate it - What I quoted you on above is a very good possibility! Where did you find all these connections to different languages for the one word?? Is there a certain website/book/other resource where you found these connections that I could also learn from? (Google just didn't do it justice:)) I love other languages, and would like to be able to research these kinds of things when I see or hear them...Thanks again!
 
Hard to explain, but I'll try. Part of it, for me, is my BA in English and a overall love of languages, especially the evolution of language. Another part was my (this life) Grandfather's genology. He traced his family back a least 1000 years ago. The name changed written spellings over that time. Going though (using only the first three letters) ERI, EYR, IYR, HYR, and ending with HER (modern). I figured out quickly that the spellings that I was seeing were phonetic, since no one had invented spelling rules back then.


So I assumed that you might be getting the phonetic spelling. I searched using the terms "Celtic" and "anis." . I found dictionary links that told me what I wrote down in my prior post. If I had still gotten the kids names, I would have tried swapping the a for an i or y. But I didn't have to.


I think you saw the modern Irish inis or island, though what that would mean, only you can say.


Here's a link that I have.


http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/
 
Cryscat

Cryscat said:
I think you saw the modern Irish inis or island, though what that would mean, only you can say.
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Wow, thank you so much for all your research! I originally posted this experience hoping someone like you would come along and help me figure it out. :) I too, love languages.


As for what it means, I had a life in Ireland that to this day means a lot to me. Most flashbacks and early memories I had as a kid were from that lifetime. Prehaps 'innis' is a clue that I lived on one of the little islands off the coast...I have no doubt it has a Irish connection, but exactly what it means? Who knows. I saw it clearly for a reason, even if I don't know exactly why yet.


Thanks again cryscat! Awesome validation -
 
Cryscat


I knew Ireland had islands off it, but had no idea there were 33 or so, wow! I shall read through that list and compare it to others very carefully. Maybe I'll recognize a name, or have another validation later on the confirms a name...I can also get on Google Earth and look at them -


I will make the trip to Ireland one day, I would really like to go back to where I lived...


Thanks for the link :)
 
It' s probably not useful, but just in case since you mention the dash...


Anís: spanish for Anise, the liquor
 
Thanks Owl - But I definitely think it is connected with Irish, not Spanish, whatever the exact spelling of the root word...
 
Perhaps, but as history shows, there was a LARGE amount of Spanish influence in Irish history in centuries past, due in part of the hatred of the English felt by the Irish.


Perhaps you had already thought of this, but I thought I would casually mention it.
 
update!


Well, to make this mystery all the more interesting, I had a dream the other night in which I heard this word again. I had not thought about 'Anis' since I last posted here, and certainly didn't go to bed thinking about it...


I don't think it was a past life dream, not clear enough for me to count it as memory right away, and I didn't identify with being anyone in the dream, just watching. Still, it was very interesting...


It seemed to be bits and pieces of the life story of this young beautiful woman in the late 1800s (not sure what country) who had several admirers. She lived with a very wealthy family. One of the admirers was 'Edward'. At one point she was reading a letter and Edward walked in, asking who the letter was from. She said "it's from my friend Mary". Another man who loved her was named "Anistein". She sometimes called him just 'Anis' affectionatly.


Don't know if it's spelled right yet - but I very clearly heard it, pronounced like Anis as I have already described with 'stein' added on the end.


Not sure what it means, but I VERY rarely get names in my dreams, and I've never EVER even heard the word Anistein in my whole life, it had to come from somewhere!?
 
Lady2 said:
Not sure what it means, but I VERY rarely get names in my dreams, and I've never EVER even heard the word Anistein in my whole life, it had to come from somewhere!?
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That's weird, I don't think it's spelled Anistein. I googled it and all it came out was Aniston. But seperately, Anis (also pronounced Ann-iss) is also a common female Muslim name and Stein is a common German name. But maybe its a rare name?
 
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