Message: "How to spell/where is it from?"

How to spell/where is it from?

by RachelChristine

8/29/2004, 11:29 AM

Lately I've taken to liking a name pronounced like LEE-lee-uh. It seems like I must have heard it somewhere and stored it in my subconscious! Anyway, does anyone know how this name might be spelled or where it might be derived from? At first I thought maybe Lilia, but then people might say that more like Lily-ah than lee-lee-ah. Lelia doesn't look so right either for some reason, and and anything like leelea or leighleah or whatever else I can think of is totally goofy and made up and I don't like at all.
And if you do have something worthwhile to post, I wouldn't mind if you added your opinion on the name. I waiver between thinking it very pretty and thinking it very affected. Not that I'd ever use it for real since my last name starts with L, but...

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- Miss Claire +4

8/29/2004, 7:03 PM

Lee-lee-ah sounds like Lilia pronounced by an Italian or Spanish person. Or a variation of the name Leelee.
I really love Lilia. It's a Hebrew name meaning "what belongs to me also belongs to God".

- Andy (guest)

8/29/2004, 11:36 PM

I know the Hebrew language manages to put a whole sentence into one word. But "What belongs to me also belongs to God" pressed into the name LILIA? "LI" means "mine", but what happened to "God"? Yahwe shortened to "A"? "Mine mine God"? - Strange! Also the meaning, I should say.

I would prefer Latin: Lilia there means "lilies" (the word is said to be of Egyptian origin). Or maybe it's just a pet form of Elizabeth.

Andy ;—)

- Ivayla +2

8/29/2004, 9:13 PM

> I really love Lilia. It's a Hebrew name meaning "what belongs to me also belongs to God".

Huh? That's the first time I hear about that. Mind sharing your sources?

- Miss Claire +1

8/30/2004, 9:34 AM

I learned it a the Jewish school, during a lesson about the names of the people in the Bible and in the Talmud. Since I've always liked names, I remembered it.

- Oren (guest)

9/1/2004, 4:07 AM

This is probably an apologetic explanation for such a "selfish" name consisting of two occurences of the word "mine/to me". One of them is attributed to God. It seems pretty typical of talmudic logic.

- Array (WeloveyouJesseLacey)

8/29/2004, 2:10 PM

I think both Lilia and Lelia look fine. Leelia would be the only madeup suggestion I can think of. The name is very pretty, and unless your last name repeated the "ee" sound in it, you could still use it. Lilia Langston, for example, sounds fine to me--but I like alliteration.

Array

- Ivayla +1

8/29/2004, 11:48 AM

I think you have it right

That's my mom's name! She spells it Lilia, and pronounces it LEE-lee-uh.

- RachelChristine

8/29/2004, 11:12 PM

Oh how cool! I would still never use it (come on, Lilia Luther? WAY too much IMO, though not as bad as Lulu Luther ), but it's nice to see that others are using that spelling, which I think VERY pretty. Does she have to deal with a lot of spelling/prn trouble though? Then again, I would think Lelia would deal with that as well, and I don't like Leelia or anything more made up than that.

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