Introduction to Communications – Comm-H100 - Assignment 1

Timothy McCall

Introduction to Communications – Comm-H100-1603

Instructor: Tammy McVey-Cammileri

February 8^th, 2008

Naugatuck Valley Community College

Spring 2007 Semester

Assignment # 1:

Task: Answer the following question. “What is the meaning of your first name?” and “How were you named?”

My given first name indicated on my birth certificate is “Timothy”.

Variations and associted nicknames are: Tim, Timmy, Timmothy, Timmo,Timo, Timofei, Timofeo, Timofey, Timon, Timoteo, Timothé, Timotheo, Timothey, Timotheus, Tymmothy, Tymon, Tymoteusz and Tymothy.

The associated gender for this name is primarily male.

The word is of Greek origin, from the Greek name (Timotheos) meaning "honoring God", derived from (timao) "to honor" and (theos) "god", or alternatively, “God’s Honor”.

For people of Irish descent adoption of the English personal first name Timothy was used as an equivalent of Tumulty and Tumelty. Tumulty/Tumelty is also an Irish Clan. Given the Gaelic usage of Mc and O’ to mean “Son-of”. McTumulty would mean “Son of Tumulty”. My last name is McCall, which is a derivation of MacCathmhaoil of Clan Cholla, one of the oldest of the Gaelic Clans of Ireland. Clan Cholla was founded by Colla Uais, High King of Ireland in 325CE.

First and Last names are no longer passed on in this way in Ireland and the only remaining country to utilize this method is Iceland.

Saint Timothy was a companion of Saint Paul on his missionary journeys and was the recipient of two of Saint Paul's epistles that appear in the New Testament. According to tradition, he was martyred at Ephesus about AD 80 after protesting the worship of the Greek goddess Artemis.

The name was uncommon until the 1800’s.

I was born in 1961, the height of the names popularity.My Mother and Father named me Timothy because the liked the sound of the name when used in conjunction with our last name, McCall. (according to my Mother, who I posed the question to…)

I have found over the years, that the first name Timothy, has always seemed extremely formal to me and normally introduce myself to people as “Tim”.