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in reply to a message by Tchernavia Gissentanna
your name is derived from the Slavic cherni/chorni - black. Though I've never heard of Chernavia/Tchernavia per se, there are a lot of similar names in Eastern Europe.
Edited to add: the only instances I've seen of representing the ch-sound in the beginning of a word as "tch" are from transcribing the Cyrillic alphabet into Latin.
But it might be that my Eastern European brain automatically translates new words into familiar words :)
Edited to add: the only instances I've seen of representing the ch-sound in the beginning of a word as "tch" are from transcribing the Cyrillic alphabet into Latin.
But it might be that my Eastern European brain automatically translates new words into familiar words :)
This message was edited 11/2/2004, 5:43 PM
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