Classify Italian goalkeeper Massimo Taibi

[Ulla]

Massimo Taibi is born in Palermo, Sicily, on 1970.


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http://media3.acmilan.com/uploads/photogallery/images/529/taibi_campo.jpg

[Ulla]

Bump!

[Sikeliot]

I find it funny that his surname is one of Arabic origins, and even exists in today's Lebanon, but he looks like an ugly Brit.

[Sizzo]

Looks Brünn.

[Sikeliot]

Way to go spamming the board with Nordic Italians.

[Virtuous]

Just needs a kilt.

[Ianus]

Alpin+Dinarid, perhaps slight CM

[Ulla]

Way to go spamming the board with Nordic Italians.

Massimo Taibi isn't a Nordic Italian, he is full Sicilian.

Surname Taibi is a typical Sicilian surname. Linguistically could derive from Arab word Tayyb. But who kowns, could have other derivations.

In any case there is no automatic relation between the linguistic origin of a surname and the ethnic origin of the people who carry that surname.

[Sikeliot]

Massimo Taibi isn't a Nordic Italian, he is full Sicilian.

Surname Taibi is a typical Sicilian surname. Linguistically could derive from Arab word Tayyb.


The same surname exists in Lebanon. Anyway, he is clearly not typically Sicilian looking.

[Ulla]

The same surname exists in Lebanon. Anyway, he is clearly not typically Sicilian looking.

Typical or not he is Sicilian.

[Tooting Carmen]

Looks Brünn.

Mixed with Faelid.

[Sizzo]

Mixed with Faelid.

He reminds me the Scandinavian Brünn of Coon, his Dalo-Faelid examples from Sweden. Maybe this Taibi has a Norman ancestry, who knows.

[Sikeliot]

He reminds me the Scandinavian Brünn of Coon, his Dalo-Faelid examples from Sweden. Maybe this Taibi has a Norman ancestry, who knows.

Or Lombard.

[Sizzo]

Or Lombard.

The so-called "Sicilian Lombardy" is an internal area between the provinces of Enna, Caltanissetta, basically. Probably only Corleone, in Palermo, was a Lombard settlement.

[Ulla]

The so-called "Sicilian Lombardy" is an internal area between the provinces of Enna, Caltanissetta, basically. Probably only Corleone, in Palermo, was a Lombard settlement.

Enna e Messina, non Caltanissetta. Taibi è un cognome diffuso soprattutto nella provincia di Agrigento, dove non esistono paesi "Lombardi di Sicilia".

[Nurzat]

i classify him ueber haha. now seriously, him being italian i guess a sort of lighter southern european cromagnid ?

[Sizzo]

Enna e Messina, non Caltanissetta. Taibi è un cognome diffuso soprattutto nella provincia di Agrigento, dove non esistono paesi "Lombardi di Sicilia".

Veramente è il Siceliota che diceva Taibi lombardo, non io. I Lombardi di Sicilia sono concentrati nel centro-est della Sicilia, quindi anche a Caltanissetta.

[Ulla]

Veramente è il Siceliota che diceva Taibi lombardo, non io. I Lombardi di Sicilia sono concentrati nel centro-est della Sicilia, quindi anche a Caltanissetta.

Hai ragione, ma lui ne spara tante e dimostra di non conoscere neanche bene l'isola dalla quale dice di discendere. In inglese poi confondono i Lombardi moderni con i Longobardi, perché usano appunto una sola parola per entrambi, Lombard.

[Sizzo]

Hai ragione, ma lui ne spara tante e dimostra di non conoscere neanche bene l'isola dalla quale dice di discendere. In inglese poi confondono i Lombardi moderni con i Longobardi, perché usano appunto una sola parola per entrambi, Lombard.

I Lombardi moderni meglio indicarli con "Lombardians" se fanno fatica a scrivere "Longobards". Che poi la Lombardia odierna è una regione alquanto risicata: un tempo (epoca carolingia) prendeva Piemonte, Liguria, Emilia, Lombardia attuale e ovviamente la Svizzera italiana.

[Sikeliot]

Some Lombard ancestry could exist in Palermo still though.

[Ulla]

I Lombardi moderni meglio indicarli con "Lombardians" se fanno fatica a scrivere "Longobards". Che poi la Lombardia odierna è una regione alquanto risicata: un tempo (epoca carolingia) prendeva Piemonte, Liguria, Emilia, Lombardia attuale e ovviamente la Svizzera italiana.

Esatto, infatti i Lombardi siciliani vengono in realtà prevalentemente da zone del Piemonte, dalle langhe fino al Monferrato, che una voltà venivano chiamate Lombardia. Che poi sono le zone dei miei nonni. Prima o poi apro un thread, ma in italiano così evitiamo a priori ogni discussione che sappiamo.

[SardiniaAtlantis]

Sirigu is far better is all I will say. Taibi seems Brunn.

[Dynamo]

The same surname exists in Lebanon. Anyway, he is clearly not typically Sicilian looking.

Not only in Lebanon but all over the Middle East, I was kinda suprised at the surname

[Sikeliot]

Not only in Lebanon but all over the Middle East, I was kinda suprised at the surname

It is present in western Sicily too.

[Ulla]

Not only in Lebanon but all over the Middle East, I was kinda suprised at the surname

What's the exact spelling of the Arab surname?

[Sikeliot]

What's the exact spelling of the Arab surname?

Taibbi

[Ulla]

Taibbi

Taibbi should still be a Sicilian variant.

Where is from American Tv Reporter Mike Taibbi?

http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/2010_Who_Is_Clark_Rockefeller_/010WIR_Mike_Taibbi_001.jpg

[Sikeliot]

Where is from American Tv Reporter Mike Taibbi?

http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/2010_Who_Is_Clark_Rockefeller_/010WIR_Mike_Taibbi_001.jpg

I think Lebanese-American.

Taibbi is the Arab spelling though.

[Ulla]

I think Lebanese-American.

Taibbi is the Arab spelling though.

Very interesting. Mike Taibbi seems Alpinid or Alpinized. I answered you in his thread.

[Sikeliot]

I'd assume in Sicily it is also of a Greek transliteration then, since there are more names of Greek origin than Arabic there. Anything ending in -aci, for instance.

[Ulla]

I'd assume in Sicily it is also of a Greek transliteration then, since there are more names of Greek origin than Arabic there. Anything ending in -aci, for instance.

Yes, in Sicily surname Taibi before being Arabized probably was a Greek name (Tobias) of Hebrew origin. When Normans conquered the island, surname Taibi hasn't changed anymore and it's remained his Arab version. But it's just a version, probably nothing else. There are many Latin and Greek names originated from Hebrew names, but it doesn't indicate that are carried exsclusively by Jewish.

Example: John, name derived from the Latin Ioannes, in turn of ωάννης, Greek version of the Hebrew name יוֹחָנָן, Yôḥanan.

[GianlucaZakarian]

This guy looks 100% Palestinian to me. Fits at a Kebab place imo. Looks like my good friend Amir.

[Ulla]

This guy looks 100% Palestinian to me. Fits at a Kebab place imo. Looks like my good friend Amir.

LOL! Troll of the week. ;-)

[GianlucaZakarian]

LOL! Troll of the week. ;-)

http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/1533186_700b.jpg

[Yuffayur]

The same surname exists in Lebanon. Anyway, he is clearly not typically Sicilian looking.

The same surname do exist in Morocco and Tunisia, I think the same with other MENA-Muzzy.

[Peter Nirsch]

he doesn't look Italian at all.

[Chimera]

Nordeby.

[special]

he doesn't look Italian at all.

LOL

[Sikeliot]

He's atypical, for sure. He has a Germanic influence.

[special]

He's atypical, for sure. He has a Germanic influence.

I'd like to thumb down but I can't.

[special]

He's atypical, for sure. He has a Germanic influence.

there's no such thing as "atypical" for an Italian. He doesnt look atypical to me. He looks like a guy I know.

[Peter Nirsch]

LOL

LOL

[special]

LOL

:mad:

[Bellona]

Only to me this man can pass with no problem in Italy? He is CM, it's true, but why CM shouldn't be considered italian looking? :D

[Pjeter Pan]

Way to go spamming the board with Nordic Italians.

Is this coming from the guy who Spams the forum with ME looking italians xD

[Tiberio]

Only to me this man can pass with no problem in Italy? He is CM, it's true, but why CM shouldn't be considered italian looking? :D

Eheheh yes.

[Sikeliot]

Is this coming from the guy who Spams the forum with ME looking italians xD

Is this coming from the guy who obsesses about Greeks being exotic too? (you)

[Pjeter Pan]

Is this coming from the guy who obsesses about Greeks being exotic too? (you)

No I'm not xD your just delusional as usual lmfaoooo

[Ventoforte]

Brunn. Is there anyone actually trying to come up with a classification (it's a classification thread)?

[Ctwentysevenj]

Has a German look.

[Piccolo]

Alpin+Dinarid, perhaps slight CM

I second this.

[Volscian]

Brunn.

[mikeyup]

Alpinized Brunn + Faelid.

[Virtuous]

I find it funny that his surname is one of Arabic origins, and even exists in today's Lebanon, but he looks like an ugly Brit.

Ugly you say? No homo, but I think he looks like a proper man. Next time you insult a Cromagnid you're going to have to face The Terminator.