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Does anyone know the meanings?
Here are some names I would like to know the meanings of:
Tarsila - name of a Brazilian painter (Tarsila do Amaral)
Oderia
Kizette
Imants - male name; might be Latvian
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There is a Wikipedia article for Imants:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImantsThe PDF given as "Notes (1)" there contains some more details about the name.
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Thanx! :)nm
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For Tarsila I found the following text that mentions it:
http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/showfinal.cgi/446.txtBasically it gives a theory that Tarsila is derived from the geographical name Tarsus.The text may look somewhat suspicious, but after checking I think these people know what they are talking about. Their homepage is here:
http://www.s-gabriel.org/
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The Academy of St Gabriel do definitely know what they're talking about. :) I've met some of them in real life and know quite a few more on the internet. They're affiliated with the Society for Creative Anachronism and they're pretty hardcore scholars very concerned about authenticity and accuracy.
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