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By petespics

What's in a name.

Rainy day and had to do a round the house blip.

This rock was from a wedding we went to. All guests had their names on rocks.

I look at this and thought it was a bit ironic as Peter per the derivation means "rock"
Here is a bit of info on my name. Complements of Wikipedia.

Peter is a common masculine given name. It is derived, via Latin "petra", from the Greek word petros meaning "stone" or "rock".

According to the New Testament, Jesus gave Saint Peter (whose given name was Simon) the name Kephas or Cephas meaning "stone" in Aramaic.

Peter in other languages.

Afrikaans: Pieter
Albanian: Petro, Pjetër, Pjetri
Aragonese: Pietro, Pero
Azerbaijani: Pyotr
Asturian: Pedru
Basque: Kepa, Peio, Peru
Bosnian: Petar
Breton: Per
Catalan: Pere
Cebuano language: Pedro
Cornish: Peder
Croatian: Petar, Pero
Czech: Petr
Danish: Peter, Peder, Per, Peer, Pelle
Dutch: Pieter, Peter (Note: The form "Peer" also occurs, albeit less commonly. The Biblical Peter is translated as "Petrus".)
Estonian: Peeter
Faroese: Pætur, Petur, Per
Frisian: Piter, Pier
Finnish: Pietari, Pekka, Petri, Petteri
French: Pierre (Note: True to the Greek, the word for stone in French is also "pierre")
Galician: Pedro
German: Peter (Note: The form "Peer" also occurs, albeit less commonly. The Biblical Peter is translated as "Petrus".)
Haitian Creole: Pyè
Hindi: Pathrus
Hebrew : Petros
Hungarian: Péter; Petya, Peti (diminutive)
Icelandic: Pétur, Pési (dimunitive)
Indian: Kaunteya
Indonesian: Petrus
Irish: Peadar
Italian: Pietro, Piero
Konkani: Pedru
Latin: Petrus
Latvian: P?teris
Lithuanian: Petras
Lombard: Peder
Low German: Petrus
Luxembourgish: Peter
Malayalam: Pathrose
Maltese: Pietru
Manx: Peddyr
M?ori: Petera
Norman: Pierre
Norwegian: Peter, Petter, Per, Pelle, Peder
Nahuatl: Pedro
Occitan: Pèire, Pèir, Pèr
Polish: Piotr
Portuguese: Pedro, Pêro (old Portuguese)
Quechua: Pidru
Romanian: Petru, Petre
Sardinian: Pedru, Perdu, Pretu
Scottish Gaelic: Peadar, Peadair
Serbian: Petar
Silesian: Pyjter, Piter
Slovak: Peter
Slovene: Peter
Spanish: Pedro
Swahili: Petero
Swedish: Peter, Petter, Per, Pehr, Pär, Pelle, Pälle
Tamil: Pethuru, Raayappar (in biblical contexts)
Uzbek: Piter
Venetian: Piero
Vietnamese: Phêrô
Võro: Piitre
Welsh: Pedr
West Frisian: Petrus

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