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“Young cats“. Licensed under” href=”http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/”>CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.[/html]Who would have thought they had such great names for their pets in the old world? For example,
In England we find dogs that were named Sturdy, Whitefoot, Hardy, Jakke, Bo and Terri. Anne Boleyn, one of the wives of King Henry VIII, had a dog named Purkoy, who got its name from the French ‘pourquoi’ because it was very inquisitive.
This article goes on to mention a few more names, and some specifically for cats: "Meone (little meow); Cruibne (little paws); Breone (little flame, perhaps an orange cat), and Glas nenta (nettle grey)." The names seem more refined than what we find nowadays!
Is there such a thing as a refined pet name? I plan on naming my next dog Jeeves, thats pretty refined.
Sounds British to me, so that's a step in the refined direction. My brother named his first dog Soren, after the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. He named his next dog ROV after Regine Olsen (+last name), after Kierkegaard's love interest. The next dog he named Marty, after Martin Heidegger.
