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Re: Yet another name not in database! Ardyth? n/t
Many long decades ago, I had a job reading children's books. And I remember noticing the name Ardeth for a little girl in one of them - a happy little American family-and-friends story about growing up in a small town.Ardyth and Ardeth would sound the same; and it seems unlikely that they were invented twice,independently. Where did you find Ardyth? I look forward to more information!
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Thanks, folks, and replying to y'all...Ardyth is the name of some woman vaguely connected through either business, or refered by a friend of a friend, that my dad sometimes exchanges news stories by email with.
Anneza, I personally would suppose that each suffix comes from a different language, and Maryth etc. sounds like a modern khree8'v usage of the original feminine suffix. I know that the -th is Hebrew feminine, but could very well be male in another language, especially modern English, lol!
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Ardeth Bay is the name of the Medjai warrior in The Mummy!
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Ardath....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.
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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
Ardishttp://tools.oxygen.com/babynamer/TypeASearch.cfm?Gender=G&Unique=1&TellMeAbout=ArdithMiranda
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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
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