Anyone good at languages recognise this word?

[Celesta]

The site keeps shutting me down.

Toda em also comes up on Spanish sites. One phrase was: "Consegui esta legenda em minha procura porém ela é toda em inglęs," ...from a website.

Is Todaem supposed to be a name?

[Debra A]

Hi all,
Thanks for all the help with this, much appreciated.
All I can say about the context the word appears in is that it is in a sentence witten in English and the word Todaem appears midway through the sentence and is written with a capital 'T' as proper noun and followed by a surname.
That is why I was hoping someone would recognise it as a forename, I see now it makes no sense if it is anything else and would therefore most likely be a mis-hearing of another word...it may even be a mis-hearing of some other forename.
Thanks for thinking to check familysearch, Ali, Ancestry brings the same results...zilch!


Btw, welcome to the boards MJB

[Glenn Lauritz Andersson]

It could also be a Scandinavian name I thought it looked Norwegian at first. Glenn might know.

No, Brenda, it's not Scandinavian. Sorry.

[Celesta]

I did find it but not as a name.

p. 66 in this book: http://books.google.com/books?id=djQ...Todaem&f=false

Surely, not what you're looking for. Sorry, Deb.

[Debra A]

No, Brenda, it's not Scandinavian. Sorry.

Thanks for confirming that, Glenn

Thanks Celesta, not what I'm looking for, no, but thanks very much for trying. It would have been great if someone had recognised it as name but it looks like it's not to be, unfortunately.

Thanks again to everyone who had a go at helping out with my little query.

Debs

[cappuccina]

It's an Old English (OE) word meaning "to that" or "so that" or "that" as in...His wife urged that he seek medical help.

Here it is in an OE context..

http://books.google.com/books?id=MwGZHj-wRD8C&pg=PA140&lpg=PA140&dq=todaem&source=bl&ots=m_h4NOmZBP&sig=dK5DHL3q8Ao3AuTTY_OYVphAX5U&hl=en&ei=Yr3US4vmEoL6lwf-rrzsDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CB8Q6AEwBw#

[m_w_r]

It's an Old English (OE) word meaning "to that" or "so that" or "that" as in...His wife urged that he seek medical help.

Here it is in an OE context..

http://books.google.com/books?id=MwG...d=0CB8Q6AEwBw#

Hi Cappuccina,

This sounds great, but it doesn't seem to fit the context clues Debs provided; also, Google will read an Old English letter eth as a modern English d, but I'm not sure that that would be the best phonic transliteration. I'm at the threshold of my understanding with this one, though. I'd be guessing at some sort of journalistic mishearing, particularly if the surname which follows it in the sentence is an "exotic" one.]

Regards,

Mark

[Celesta]

I came across what looks like a name, but the sites are generally in languages I don't speak so I can't say for sure. I'm leery of some sites for security reasons.

[MJB]

Thank you Debra for the welcoming!

MJB

[Debra A]

Hi Cappuccina,

This sounds great, but it doesn't seem to fit the context clues Debs provided; also, Google will read an Old English letter eth as a modern English d, but I'm not sure that that would be the best phonic transliteration. I'm at the threshold of my understanding with this one, though. I'd be guessing at some sort of journalistic mishearing, particularly if the surname which follows it in the sentence is an "exotic" one.]

Regards,

Mark

Hi Mark,

Thanks for your thoughts on this. The frustrating thing is the newspaper article this comes from is a report of a court appearance of someone I am researching and the surname given is spot on. This particular person used many aliases but his real identity is not certain, that's why I got a little excited by this report thinking his birth name may have been given, at least in part. I think a journalistic mishearing is the most likely explanation.

Thanks Caps and Celesta, I have the same problem as you Celesta when looking for it as a name on the web.

[The Good Michael]

I think it means 'today' in the dative case.

Mike