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in reply to a message by Anneza
Is I think the usual spelling in name books. It's usually claimed to be Hebrew, and to mean something like 'field of flowers'....which seems unlikely :)
Try googling Ardath or Ardeth + meaning.
Try googling Ardath or Ardeth + meaning.
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On Oxygen.com, the primary spelling is Ardith, and it's claimed to be a female name meaning "blooming meadow" in Hebrew. Alternate forms/spellings listed are:
Ardath
Ardelia
Ardell
Ardella
Ardelle
Ardis
http://tools.oxygen.com/babynamer/TypeASearch.cfm?Gender=G&Unique=1&TellMeAbout=Ardith
Miranda
Ardath
Ardelia
Ardell
Ardella
Ardelle
Ardis
http://tools.oxygen.com/babynamer/TypeASearch.cfm?Gender=G&Unique=1&TellMeAbout=Ardith
Miranda
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Yeah, the "field of flowers" does sound improbable! However, all I get when Googling, and indeed when Asking Jeeves, is a whole bunch of stuff on what looks like vintage horror movies, with a character called Ardeth Bey, who must therefore be masculine, though what he's doing with a -th ending to his name is more than I can imagine.
Do you have any ideas about how and why the endings of names get changed? Janet, for instance is obvious - but why Janice? On the analogy of Clarice?
I was at school with a Maryth, whose name is always given as: a form of Mary. Cool - but why? How? Why not Marysh, or Maryx, or Marice? And in that case, could Ardeth be a form of Arden - perhaps an attempt to make it more feminine-sounding, back in the good old days when such things mattered?
All the best
Do you have any ideas about how and why the endings of names get changed? Janet, for instance is obvious - but why Janice? On the analogy of Clarice?
I was at school with a Maryth, whose name is always given as: a form of Mary. Cool - but why? How? Why not Marysh, or Maryx, or Marice? And in that case, could Ardeth be a form of Arden - perhaps an attempt to make it more feminine-sounding, back in the good old days when such things mattered?
All the best
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