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Re: Mia: girls name as it is used in Germany

by Chrisell

4/1/2005, 8:02 AM

in reply to a message by Starshine Breeze

Mia does not mean 'peace' in German. The German for peace is frieden. The German name meaning 'peace' is Friede (click hyperlink for information).

Click here: Mia for the origins of this name. Also, 'mia' means 'mine' or 'my own' in Italian (as a word, not a name).

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- Starshine Breeze (guest) +3

4/1/2005, 8:31 AM

The message board read "Mia bedeutet frieden" which translates to Mia means peace. Please help me to understand why someone would write this on a baby name message board.

- Caprice +2

4/1/2005, 8:53 AM

Because message boards are often very bad and unreliable (but you can almost always trust this one!)

- Starshine Breeze (guest) +1

4/1/2005, 9:02 AM

So True. But in this forum, I think the writer really believed that Mia means Peace. She wrote that it was a beautiful meaning. She must have learned this somewhere...

- Satu (_satu_)

4/1/2005, 9:23 AM

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Hi Starshine Breeze,

What about asking the author of that post about her source?

In Germany, Mia is a pet form for Maria and it has been used as a short form of Euphemia as well. I have never seen any connection to a name meaning peace in any German book about names - not even in bad ones ;)

/Satu

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