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[Facts] Sweta
Any idea as to what the F name Sweta means?===
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A Polish variant of Sveta (?).
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That seems like an obvious possibility, except that Sweta is not a name that a Polish person would have. And the girl looked Indian.===
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shveta is cognate with and means white. shvetA is the feminine form.The -v- is the standard transliteration, but the sound is unaspirated labio-dental, IPA [ʃʋe:t̪α:], more like w. The sound changes depending on the modern Indian language being referred to, thus in Bengali, the -v- disappears in this context.
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