I’m new here, so I’m a stranger to most Dopers, still.
In another thread, someone assumed that I’m female. I’m not at all offended, of course, but it made me wonder why that assumption was made. My screen name, maybe?
Anyway, FWIW, my screen name, which is pronounded KOO-ning-a-blode is an Anglo-Saxon compound word that translates to “Kingsblood”, or “Blood of kings”. My ancestry is strongly Anglo-Saxon, see. (But I’m not a neo-pagan, or supremacist, or anything idiotic like that.)
I guess Cyningablod could be a female name, too, but in my case, it ain’t.
To me, the first syllable read like that of ‘Cynthia,’ which gave me a slightly female vibe, but the ‘blod’ sounds distinctly unfeminine, so I’d just have been confused.
Hwaet! I knew it was King something, but wondered who Ablod was. I should have realized that the “a” is a genitive inflection, although come to think of it, I was only familiar with the plural genitive as in “Englena-londe”, land of the Angles=England.
Wouldn’t have pronounced, or guessed the meaning without the explanation.
Don’t think my screen name is all that hard to pronounce. I got it on another board, long ago, when originally trying to log on as Primus, then Segundus, etc.
Maybe I should just spell it phonetically, then: Kooningablode.