Jeff Lilly

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Jeff Lilly is a druid, linguist, and author of one of the most popular druid blogs, much to his surprise. He writes about druid things -- meditation, relationship with Spirit, soulful fulfillment in scholarship and art, reconnecting the ancient with the modern, creating beauty, and healing the world. He is a member of a number of druid organizations, including AODA, OWO, and OBOD, and does ritual rather ineptly but earnestly in the Pittsburgh, PA area with the Sycamore Circle. He lives with his partner Ali and her cat Cu.

Jeffrey Paul Lilly

Below is the origin of my names.  The information is taken gratefully from the Online Etymology Dictionary.

JEFFREY (GEOFFREY)
male personal name, from O.Fr. Geoffroi, from M.L. Galfridus, from O.H.G. gewi “district” + fridu “peace.”

PAUL
masc. proper name, from L. Paulum (nom. Paulus), Roman surname of the Aemilian gens, lit. “small” (see paucity). Cf. O.Fr. Pol, It. Paolo, Sp. Pablo, Rus. Pavel.
**paucity
c.1425, from O.Fr. paucité (14c.), from L. paucitatem (nom. paucitas) “fewness, scarcity,” from paucus “few, little,” from PIE base *pau- “few, little” (cf. L. paullus “little,” parvus “little, small,” pauper “poor;” O.E. feawe “few,” fola “young horse;” O.N. fylja “young female horse”).

LILLY (from town name Lille, in France; town named after the flower)
O.E. lilie, from L. lilia, pl. of lilium “a lily,” cognate with Gk. leirion, both perhaps borrowed from a corrupted pronunciation of an Egyptian word (”hlile”). Used in O.T. to translate Heb. shoshanna and in N.T. to translate Gk. krinon. The color sense of “pale, bloodless” led to lily-livered “cowardly” (1605, in “Macbeth;” see liver; the healthy liver is typically dark reddish-brown). The lily of the valley translates L. lilium convallium (Vulgate), a literal rendition of the Heb. term in Song of Solomon ii.1. It apparently was applied to a particular plant (Convallaria majalis) first by 16c. Ger. herbalists.

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