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My name is Tonya. Im trying to find the correct meaning of Tonya. I know it derived from Antonia. Antonia derived from Anthony. According to the BtN database, Antony was always incorrectly mistaken for the Greek work Anthos which meant flower. So in the 17th century the H was added to Anthony to make it mean flower. Since my name is derived from Anthony. Does that mean my name means flower????
If it does not can you please tell me what it does mean??
I guess I don't see why it could not mean flower since it did derive from Anthony. It just probably only meant flower after the 17th century.
Please let me know any information you may have on my name Tonya or of Anthony.
Thank you so much for your time :)
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~Proud wife of Jacob~
*Proud mother of my pets*:
Cricket, Dusty Rose, Angel, Snowball and Butterbee
~*To be great is to be misunderstood*~
If it does not can you please tell me what it does mean??
I guess I don't see why it could not mean flower since it did derive from Anthony. It just probably only meant flower after the 17th century.
Please let me know any information you may have on my name Tonya or of Anthony.
Thank you so much for your time :)
___________________________________________________________
~Proud wife of Jacob~
*Proud mother of my pets*:
Cricket, Dusty Rose, Angel, Snowball and Butterbee
~*To be great is to be misunderstood*~
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Not quite. People didn't add the H to make Antony mean "flower" - they assumed that the H should have been there all the time. So, they helpfully put it back to correct a mistake.
Except that it wasn't a mistake ... Antony is such an ancient name, and Etruscan is such a mysterious language, that we simply don't know what it actually did mean. Now, its meaning is: Nice name that my parents chose for me with love.
You might be interested to look at the comments for Anthony - click on it here, and then click on Comments.
Except that it wasn't a mistake ... Antony is such an ancient name, and Etruscan is such a mysterious language, that we simply don't know what it actually did mean. Now, its meaning is: Nice name that my parents chose for me with love.
You might be interested to look at the comments for Anthony - click on it here, and then click on Comments.
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If Anthony means priceless, so does Tonya! (Just as Michael and Michaela share a meaning.) However, since nobody knows what Anthony originally meant, it hardly matters. People are at liberty to make guesses about the meaning, if that helps them to pass the time, but until they can provide convincing evidence, there is no reason for us to take them seriously.
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