Thread:Despicme95/@comment-22439-20160802174854/@comment-32629885-20200616022824

Despicme95 wrote: I tried to add that Margo means Pearl in French, but it was removed despite the fact I've found out that's the case.

https://www.sheknows.com/baby-names/name/margo/

How can I prove that it does mean that so it can be added the trivia for Margo Gru? My first language is French, and I'm an undergraduate in Translation and Linguistics. I can give you quotes from literally hundreds of dictionaries. Margo does not mean pearl in French. Margo comes from the English first name Margaret, which comes from the French noun "marguerite" (and eponymous first name), which translates to daisy in English. A pearl is a "perle" in French. Both pearl and "perle" come from ancient Italian word "perla", unchanged in contemporary Italian and Spanish.

In ancient French, "margo" meant a border (and derived into today's margin in English, and "marge" in French) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/margo So other sources say that in evolved Latin margo meant a river bank or margin https://www.online-latin-dictionary.com/latin-english-dictionary.php?parola=margo My knowledge of Latin is minimal however.

However Margo does not mean pearl in French.

The "Margo means pearl in French" thing has been going on for over three years now, before even the Trivia had it's own tab, and no amount of discussion/undoing seems to stop it, so I'll be strict on this.