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I have questions about three random names:
1. What is the meaning of Serihilde? It is allegedly a Germanic female name.
2. I've heard that Nevaeh has been incorrectly identified as a Slavic name meaning "butterfly". However, I've also read that Nevaeh is an Armenian name. Armenian isn't a Slavic language, but people might mistake it as one because Armenia was once part of the Soviet Union. Could Nevaeh possibly mean "butterfly" (or anything else) in Armenian?
3. I know that Semaj as a name is simply James backwards, but I've also come across Semaj as an Albanian surname. Anyone know what it means? I can cross post this on the surname message board if no one knows the answer here.
1. What is the meaning of Serihilde? It is allegedly a Germanic female name.
2. I've heard that Nevaeh has been incorrectly identified as a Slavic name meaning "butterfly". However, I've also read that Nevaeh is an Armenian name. Armenian isn't a Slavic language, but people might mistake it as one because Armenia was once part of the Soviet Union. Could Nevaeh possibly mean "butterfly" (or anything else) in Armenian?
3. I know that Semaj as a name is simply James backwards, but I've also come across Semaj as an Albanian surname. Anyone know what it means? I can cross post this on the surname message board if no one knows the answer here.
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Nevaeh probably does mean "butterfly" in Armenian, because it does not look Slavic at all. It looks more Turkic or Armenian. As for Serihilde, I think hilde comes from the Old Norse "hildr" or Germanic "hild", which meant "battle". I have no idea where seri comes from though.
This message was edited 1/20/2007, 11:41 AM
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1. I can't find Serihilde, but if it does exist, the -hilde part would probably have the same derivation as Hilda.
2. Probably not. It's hard to exactly figure out the Armenian alphabet's relationship to the online Armenian-English dictionary I found, but it looks to me like the main Armenian word for butterfly would be something like "titernag" when written in the Roman alphabet. In my Armenian name dictionary (Armenian First Names, by Nicholas Awde & Emanuela Losi), the closest girls' names to Nevaeh are Nevrig, Nirva, Nvart, and Nver, and I really don't think it's likely that Nevaeh is derived from any of those.
3. No clue, sorry.
2. Probably not. It's hard to exactly figure out the Armenian alphabet's relationship to the online Armenian-English dictionary I found, but it looks to me like the main Armenian word for butterfly would be something like "titernag" when written in the Roman alphabet. In my Armenian name dictionary (Armenian First Names, by Nicholas Awde & Emanuela Losi), the closest girls' names to Nevaeh are Nevrig, Nirva, Nvart, and Nver, and I really don't think it's likely that Nevaeh is derived from any of those.
3. No clue, sorry.
This message was edited 1/17/2007, 12:21 PM
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