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by Lethe (reniannen17)
3/12/2008, 1:11 PM
Wondered if anyone has any info on this name? I saw it on a programme credits and googling it quickly, it seems to be an African female name** You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them **
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- Lumia   +1
3/13/2008, 3:23 PM
Morenike is a Yoruban name that means "I have someone to pet or to pamper". These links offer in English the same information that I have in my personal notes:http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/arts/article02/090906
http://www.onlinenigeria.com/nigeriannames/ad.asp?blurb=144&topic=Morenike
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- Lethe (reniannen17)
3/14/2008, 2:22 PM
ThanksNames from non european cultures often have really interesting meanings, I like when 1 word manages to encompass a sentence.
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- Mrs Claire (Miss Claire)   +3
3/13/2008, 7:38 AM
Interesting.
Morenica is the name of the heroine of a Judeo-Spanish song. It means "little brown one".
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- Lethe (reniannen17)   +2
3/13/2008, 12:40 PM
Thanks that's interesting. Funny they're so similar but I don't think it's the same name as Morenike, the people I saw with the name on myspace etc were definitely of African origin.
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- Anneza   +1
3/13/2008, 11:08 PM
Well, Africa's big and includes the Mediterranean countries - whose inhabitants, once they became Muslims and invaded Spain, were known as Moors. So that'll be where Mme Claire's song came from. I think it's too far North to have influenced Yoruba, especially since the meaning is so different.
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- Lumia
3/14/2008, 12:44 AM
Morenica is a Ladino word used as first name (it is very usual among 12th c.-15th c. Sephardic Jews). It comes from morena, "dark (haired or skinned)", with the diminutive suffix -ica. And it is the same in the actual Spanish (the use of the suffix -ico/-ica is very usual in Murcia, e.g., whereas in other dialects other suffixes are used: -uco/-uca, -illo/illa...).The formal coincidence with the Yoruba Morenike is just that, a formal coincidence.
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