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The meaning of Clara's name
AsbestosInferno
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I decided to Google the meanings of the names "Clara", "Oswin" and "Oswald" and see what came up, and see if they had any relevance to her character at all. This is what came up:
Clara means bright; highly intelligent, illustrous, wisdom, God-fearing, extraordinary beauty
Oswin as a boy's name is of Old English origin, and it's meaning is "God's friend".
Oswald as a boy's name is pronounced OZ-wald. It is of Old German origin, and it's meaning is "God's power".
As you can see, each name has a meaning related to God:
Clara: Fear
Oswin: Friend
Oswald: Power
Make of that what you will..
Clara means bright; highly intelligent, illustrous, wisdom, God-fearing, extraordinary beauty
Oswin as a boy's name is of Old English origin, and it's meaning is "God's friend".
Oswald as a boy's name is pronounced OZ-wald. It is of Old German origin, and it's meaning is "God's power".
As you can see, each name has a meaning related to God:
Clara: Fear
Oswin: Friend
Oswald: Power
Make of that what you will..
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Doc Allows Was Rani
I personally think it's nothing, but it could turn out to be a clue...
I do wonder if that's true. If so, a nice tribute.
November 23rd 1963 was the day Dr. Who first aired in the UK the day after the Kennedy assasination, and the name of his so called assasin ? ah yes Oswald ! lol.
However, in the Asylum of The Daleks just to check things over the black guy was called Harvey.
So thats Harvey Oswald, just need a character called Lee or or asian / chinese character called Li, lol.
Kamelion and K9's names did.
In answer to your follow-up question: yes, several of my previous replies have tediously grasped at straws.
Alternatively if you take 3 letters from each part of the name you can make Rassillon.
(However, there are several thousand other possible anagrams as well eg: A Sardonic Swallow, A Cardinals Sol Wow, A Radicals Low Snow, Disowns A Local War etc etc)
That was sort of my point - you can make over 9,000 anagrams out of the phrase (even more if you only take elements of the phrase) and a large percentage of those create a phrase cryptic enough to easily be manipulated into some form of 'clue' or 'message' or suchlike. I also doubt very much whether such a device as an anagram would truly be used in such a way anyway.
Obviously a relation.
Or not.
Anagrams aren't Moffat's style. He and Gatiss enjoy cryptics as good as the Times crossword.
My top 3 Oswin derivations are ...
1) Saint Oswin, a northern 7thC king who succeeded King Oswald. Saint Oswin died after disbanding his army for the greater good, as did our Oswin. His life was forgotten until his grave was revealed by an apparition to a monk named Edmund in 1065.
2) A contraction of O'(f) Swindon, Billie Piper's birthplace. a phase Nina - Nine's female. First boyfriend Rory = red king = Chris Evans.
3) Perhaps derived cryptically from Osirin.
Numbers 1 and 3 make some kind of sense, but 2 - I can't make head nor tails of it. Where do you get the Nina from, and what's that about Rory?
pigeon street was awesome..
clara could mean anything,i'm sure it'll be mighty confusing
Charlotte means "Free Man (person)", Abigail means "Joy", and Lux means "Bright." VERY close in meaning with Clara's names.
In fact, their hairstyles, their vocabulary enunciations, even their catch phrases are the same. "Run, you clever boy" (spoken by Clara) and "Aren't I a clever girl" (Charlotte), said in the same singsong cadence, indicate the same entity.
And Clara seems to be falling an an abyss in series 7 finale very similar to the one the 10th Doctor did in the Library core.