Message: "What is the origin of this name?"

What is the origin of this name?

by Erendyra (guest)

11/21/2005, 4:20 PM

This is the name of my cousin. She is from Latin America, Mexican to be exact. She claims that it derives from the meaning of a princess, or she thinks it is. I disagree, but I'm really not sure. What is its origin, anybody?

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- Cleveland Kent Evans (clevelandkentevans)

11/21/2005, 4:39 PM

Erendira (in Spanish Eréndira) was the name of a princess of the Tarascan or Purepechan people of ancient Mexico. According to José Albaigés's Diccionario de Nombres de Personas, it meant "one who smiles" in the Tarascan language. Erendyra would be a modern respelling of Erendira.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarascan

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