what would you think the meaning of Willavere would be? I think it would be something like true protection? but I’m not very good at figuring out meanings
[name_f]Willa[/name_f] means resolute protection, and the suffix ‘vere’ means true, so yeah, true protection. Or maybe complete protection?
I saw that [name_f]Willa[/name_f] can apparently also mean strong-willed warrior. So maybe warrior of truth?
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Willa is generally viewed as a feminine form of William so will, desire would be the most likely meaning for it (from the Germanic element willo). Vere is usually a suffix that is just an Anglicization of a Welsh sound, so has no real meaning on it’s own, but could be from hwyfar meaning phantom, magical being, demon (as with Guinevere), gwr meaning man (as with Bedivere), or even a Norman French/Ghaulish word meaning alder tree. It could also be taken as coming from the Latin word for truth, verus
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I think it depends where you take the elements from.
[name_f]Willa[/name_f] → from [name_m]William[/name_m], “resolute protection”, though the [name_f]Willa[/name_f] part (willos) specifically means “will, desire”.
-vere → from French/Norman, meaning “alder” /// from Latin verus “true, truth” /// from Russian [name_f]Vera[/name_f] meaning “true”// from Welsh hwyfar meaning “shadow, phantom, wave” // from the Germanic war, via Angliciziation (meaning “cautious,
careful, aware” or “true”)
So yeah, you could say it means “true resolute protection” or “resolute protection of truth”. But you could also say…
“desires truth / resolute to the truth”
“will of the phantom, will of the magical being”
“cautious will / cautious and aware”
“resolute in war”
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