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Frixos (Where's Pavlos?) :)
Someone on the Opinions board posted a list of birth announcements from Sydney, Australia that included a boy named Frixos. A little bit of Googling seems to show this is a Greek name, but I couldn't find anything about its origin. Does anyone out there know any more about this name?
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Spot-on, Marija :)Generally, Greek names with a Ö (phi) are transliterated in english with a ph - some however opr for a plain old F :)
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Any Hellenophile is a phile of mine ;)Hey, didnt you once post that you enjoy Michalis Hadjiyiannis? That *really* surprised me :)
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Yes, that was me. I have a very good Greek friend that introduced me to Greek music and taught me loads about names. I've told her to come post on here a number of times because she knows so much about them. I still have a lot to learn. :-)
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I'm a bit of a Hellenophile ;):)
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Thanks to you both!
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Well, Frixos would be an alternitive transliteration of Phrixos, which is a name from mythology. See the Latinized name, Phrixus.

This message was edited 3/10/2007, 7:32 PM

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