>>Well, it 'sounds' pretty anyway :o) In Spanish it is a derivative of 'Manuel.' I think it may derive from the name Emmanuel in Hebrew too.
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>And Emmanuel means "God is with us." As I said elsewhere recently, "El" means "God," so almost all those names with "el" in them are "God" something.
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I wonder how you say "damn it" in Arabic? ;-)

Mike the infidel