Quimi's 4th birthday was cool - and Katja made plenty of food. Now everything must be digested before we fly to Germany on Wednesday. BURP!
1 year ago.
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Congratulations on your child starting his 5th year under the sun (however infrequent an apparition up here)! Now his name intrigues me. I presume your child is male, so is Quimi a regular/popular Catalan/Valencian given name, and more interestingly, was it inspired by Finland's Kimi Räikkönen? :)
Of cours the more obvious one is that is it is somehow a derivativ (a diminutiv or pet name, perhaps) of your name Quim, which I surmise derives from the pan-European Kim with a Spanish/Catalan orthography. :)
@xan: I guess you're right but probably modeled after Joakim -> Kim in Western and Northern European languages. Of cours which was the first language to shorten it like that can be debated.
Finnish Kimi is most probably a rendering of Swedish/European Kim with a nativizing vowel (aka paragogei added in the end as nativ Finnish words can't end with most consonants incl m. Another possibl influence for this name comes from nativ Kimmo.
The name is Quim, which is a short of Joaquim very common in Catalonia. My passport reads "Joaquim" because such short can't b official in Spain but Quimi was born in Germany so he got strainght "Quim" in his passport. Amazing EU.
In Valencia they usually use Ximo / Tximo / Chimo (each variant has almost a philosophy and political discussion behind). My father is called Kim by my mother, my grandfather was born Joaquín in a Valencian town called Anna where they speak a mixture of Catalan/Valencia and Spanish only the locals fully get.
As you see this is a familiar tradition. Perhaps the only one I decided not to break. At the end I liked the name and my grandmother was so happy the day she knew...
I guess you were born when Franco was still alive (or shortly after he died)? My name is a short form and it's my official name, and I think these days in Spain you can name your child pretty much anything you like as long as it's not "offensive" for him/her.
8 comments so far
Congratulations on your child starting his 5th year under the sun (however infrequent an apparition up here)! Now his name intrigues me. I presume your child is male, so is Quimi a regular/popular Catalan/Valencian given name, and more interestingly, was it inspired by Finland's Kimi Räikkönen? :)
1 year ago by jkniiv
Of cours the more obvious one is that is it is somehow a derivativ (a diminutiv or pet name, perhaps) of your name Quim, which I surmise derives from the pan-European Kim with a Spanish/Catalan orthography. :)
1 year ago by jkniiv
I always thought Quim's was a diminutive from "Joaquim".
1 year ago by xan
Quim's name, that is.
1 year ago by xan
@xan: I guess you're right but probably modeled after Joakim -> Kim in Western and Northern European languages. Of cours which was the first language to shorten it like that can be debated.
1 year ago by jkniiv
Finnish Kimi is most probably a rendering of Swedish/European Kim with a nativizing vowel (aka paragoge i added in the end as nativ Finnish words can't end with most consonants incl m. Another possibl influence for this name comes from nativ Kimmo.
1 year ago by jkniiv
The name is Quim, which is a short of Joaquim very common in Catalonia. My passport reads "Joaquim" because such short can't b official in Spain but Quimi was born in Germany so he got strainght "Quim" in his passport. Amazing EU.
In Valencia they usually use Ximo / Tximo / Chimo (each variant has almost a philosophy and political discussion behind). My father is called Kim by my mother, my grandfather was born Joaquín in a Valencian town called Anna where they speak a mixture of Catalan/Valencia and Spanish only the locals fully get.
As you see this is a familiar tradition. Perhaps the only one I decided not to break. At the end I liked the name and my grandmother was so happy the day she knew...
1 year ago by qgil
I guess you were born when Franco was still alive (or shortly after he died)? My name is a short form and it's my official name, and I think these days in Spain you can name your child pretty much anything you like as long as it's not "offensive" for him/her.
1 year ago by xan