The meaning of Åkerfeldt

[Korlich]

isn't Per Danish anyway?

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I don´t think so although Mike did make some joke about Per and a Danish beer called Tuborg.

 

[Ermz]

Finally, this thread makes sense.

I KNOW! There could not be a better description of Mendez' onstage presence.

 

[Valerie]

I KNOW! There could not be a better description of Mendez' onstage presence.

bahahah!!!

oh noes!! his hair's eating him!

 

[KJones]

isn't Per Danish anyway?

Maybe his heritage is, but at least he speaks perfect Swedish.
It's like saying Lars Ulrich is really Danish even though he is American now.

Maybe he originally came from there and then moved. Not really sure.

 

[worldwide_suicide]

next on theaters.... "HAIR"

Starring: Martin Mendez as Martin Mendez
special guest appereance: Big F. King Hair
Direction & Production: George Lucas

"a young man... being chased by a massive amount of hair... the only thing he can do to fight this cancer off is shake his head from one side to the other, trying to get rid of its attack... Will he break free from this monster? Willl he finally be eaten completely til there's no more human flesh in his body?... A haunting story you wouldn't want to miss... "HAIR"

 

[Moonstruck]

Wait... If 'Lo' is a lynx, and 'Pez'... well, we all know what Pez is right?

So 'Lopez' must mean 'A plastic article that dispenses Pez candy and is shaped as the head of a lynx at the top'!

 

[worldwide_suicide]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha fucking funny Moonstruck, hahahahaha

 

[KJones]

Some other ones:

jo = Yes
nas = Nose
ren = Clean
kse = Face
So Jonas Renkse means "Yes-Nose Clean-Face"

dan = The day
swan = Swan
ö = Island
So Dan Swanö means "The Day of Swan Island"

tagt = Takes
gren = Branch
So Peter Tagtgren means "Peter Takes a Branch"

ny = new
ström = electricity / power
so Anders Nystrom means "Anders New Power"

 

[Disgustipated]

..and 'anders' means 'different' in German, so does that mean he's a 'different new power'? 'Kse' means 'face'? Oh, last I checked, 'ansikt' meant 'face' .. then again.. I can see where 'KSE' gradually evolved into 'ANSIKT'...

'tagt' means 'takes'? Well, seeing as 'takes' is the english present 3rd person for 'to take', that should actually be 'tar' ..

and in Swedish, swan is svan, and seeing as though 'w' was only introduced into the Swedish language to accomodate foreign words, you have no argument based on linguistic evolution.. same goes for Wi.. how could this have been an old Norse (that being the language modern Scandinavian language evolved from) word, where they had no 'w' sound, you twat? The English word 'wide' is a derivative of 'vid'; the 'w' sound a derivative of 'v'.. so how could 'WI' be some ancient word, when the letter did not exist?

For example, Mikael doesn't have a linguistic meaning that I know of.

The fact that you said this suggests to me that you don't know completely what your talking about. As previously pointed out, Mikael is the Scandinavian version of Michael, a biblical name.

Btw, had you heard of a thing called etymology? It is the actual history of words..

Dan is actually also a Biblical name, of Hebrew origin..
Jonas is just either a form of John or Johan, oh look, both biblical names..
Anders is just a form of Andrew, biblical name..
Peter, biblical name..

Do we see a pettern here? A big majority of Christian OMG: ) names, are biblically derived.. Others don't mean anything; few have real meaning.

And in reference to surnames, like 'New Power', and 'Swan Island', I wouldn't be surprised if the Swedes did like the Dutch; after ridding of the 'son' and 'dottir' traditions, made up a whole bunch of random bullshit surnames..

The fact that I, an 18 year-old who has just completed high-school, can own your arse with basically everything you've said, suggests to me, that you're no more linguistically superior than the Tom, Dick and Harry all around you.

But, an amusing thread, nonetheless.


ohhh BTW, that whole Mendez thing was fucking hilarious!

 

[worldwide_suicide]

year 2010: with the departure of Martin Lopez and Per Wiberg from the band "opeth"the first one pursuing his career as a porn star, the second one now a worldwide famous fashion designer... the now three member band has returned with their new album entitled "Summer's gone.... for the 20th time",

Things have changed alot since their last record "Summer's gone... for the 19th time"...Mikael Akerfeldt now with short hair, Peter Lindgren has shaved his hair off and wear corpsepaint, and Martin Mendez... oh well...


http://chronicle.augusta.com/images/headlines/103199/Addams_Family_ContestLR.jpg

 

[EveOfDarkness]

^^^rofl

 

[KJones]

The fact that I, an 18 year-old who has just completed high-school, can own your arse with basically everything you've said, suggests to me, that you're no more linguistically superior than the Tom, Dick and Harry all around you.

Come on now! Don't you get it yet???
Obviously the last ones I posted about Swan and Kse were nothing more than a hoax! That whole post was just made to be humoristic.

But the first ones I posted that started this thread were actually true, although it was more based on just translating the partial words of the names making them into words, than a proven factual meaning of the names!

Still, in my first example for instance, all the meanings are true:
Åker does mean pastures/farmland, and feldt does mean field.
Lind is a type of tree, and blad does mean leaf!

Of course except "Wi" which to my knowledge means absolutely nothing.
I think Wi is just the name of the Berg, so it's kind of like saying Mount Everest, where Everest is the name and Mountain is just what it is.

Nice to see you got the jokes though, for the most part.

 

[Caesar Metallius]

I thought it was an interesting thread topic, but some people took it a bit too serious.

 

[Disgustipated]

Some people .. like me

 

[Deadlift]

Jonas Renske was a fukin massacre of the swedish language.

 

[shark22]

Some linguistic curiosities based on Opeth members' last names:

Åker = means either pastures or farmland
Feldt = means either "field" or "fallen" (as in a chopped down crops)

So Åkerfeldt then means either "field of farmland" or "field of harvested crops"


Lind = A type of tree (Linden Tree)
Gren = Branch (as in the branches of a tree)

So Lindgren then means simply "branch of linden tree"


Wi = Wide (broad, opposite of narrow)
Berg = Rock, mountain

So Wiberg then means "wide rock" or "large mountain"

Wow, somebodys go a little too much time on thier hands.

 

[T-Rat]

Definition: A patronymical surname meaning "son of Lope." Lope comes from the Spanish form of Lupus, a Latin name meaning "wolf."

Surname Origin: Spanish

Alternate Surname Spellings: LOPES, LOPAZ, LOPAS

well, that's a nice one...

as for eaten by hair...

Definition: A patronymic surname meaning "son or descendant of Mendel or Mendo," given names meaning knowledge, wisdom. Its beginnings have been traced back primarily to the village of Celanova, Spain, according to the Instituto Genealógico e Histórico Latino-Americano.

Surname Origin: Spanish

Alternate Surname Spellings: MENDES, MENENDEZ, MENENDES, MÉNDEZ, MÉNDES

but i think we all know that it really does mean "related to cousin it"

 

[Kenneth R.]

biblical first names cause their music is of biblical proportions

I am a huge fan of the Day of Swan Island. maybe we could make it the 8th day of the week, or replace monday

 

[the_3_toed_sloth]

The fact that you said this suggests to me that you don't know completely what your talking about. As previously pointed out, Mikael is the Scandinavian version of Michael, a biblical name.

Btw, had you heard of a thing called etymology? It is the actual history of words..

Dan is actually also a Biblical name, of Hebrew origin..
Jonas is just either a form of John or Johan, oh look, both biblical names..
Anders is just a form of Andrew, biblical name..
Peter, biblical name..

Do we see a pettern here? A big majority of Christian OMG: ) names, are biblically derived.. Others don't mean anything; few have real meaning.

Fuck, not only did an obvious joke go over your head, but you are wrong that few Christian names have meaning - almost all do.

MICHAEL
Gender: Masculine
Pronounced: MIE-kul
From the Hebrew name Miyka'el which meant "who is like God?". This is the name of one of the seven archangels in Hebrew tradition and the only one identified as an archangel in the Bible. In the Book of Revelation in the New Testament he is portrayed as the leader of heaven's armies, and thus is considered the patron saint of soldiers. This was also the name of nine Byzantine emperors and a czar of Russia. Other more modern bearers of this name include the 19th-century chemist/physicist Michael Faraday and basketball player Michael Jordan.

PETER
Gender: Masculine
Pronounced: PEE-tur
Derived from the Greek Πετρος (Petros) meaning "stone". This is a translation used in most versions of the Bible of the name Cephas (meaning "stone" in Aramaic) which was given to the apostle Simon by Jesus (compare Matthew 16:18 and John 1:42). Simon Peter was the most prominent of the apostles during Jesus's ministry and is considered by some to be the first pope. This name was also borne by Peter the Great, the czar of Russia who defeated Sweden in the Great Northern War in the 18th century. A famous fictional bearer is Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up in J. M. Barrie's play.

MARTIN
Gender: Masculine
Pronounced: MAHR-tin (English), mar-TEN (French), MAWR-teen (Hungarian)
From the Roman name Martinus, which was derived from Martis, the genitive case of the name of the Roman god MARS. Saint Martin of Tours was a 4th-century bishop who is the patron saint of France. According to legend, he came across a cold beggar in the middle of winter so he ripped his cloak in two and gave half of it to the beggar. Five popes have borne this name. Two other influential bearers were Martin Luther, the theologian who began the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century, and more recently Martin Luther King, the American civil rights leader who fought for racial equality.

PER
Gender: Masculine
Scandinavian and Breton form of PETER

 

[Kenneth R.]

epic