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ArchivesThe Original Cheryl may have been a guy :)
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Welcome to our laboratory and playground Cheryl :) Lemme propose an alternative to Nanaea 's very elegant approach.
Assuming that "Cheryl " is derived from the fruit Cherry , one can trace Cheryl to the Greek "kerasos" (cherry) => "cerasus" (Latin) => cerise, cherry, kirsche etc (contemporary languages).... As a matter of fact there is a very early recorded Mycenaean *male* name "Keraso" (George Babiniotis, *Hellenic Lexicon*).
Assuming that "Cheryl " is derived from the fruit Cherry , one can trace Cheryl to the Greek "kerasos" (cherry) => "cerasus" (Latin) => cerise, cherry, kirsche etc (contemporary languages).... As a matter of fact there is a very early recorded Mycenaean *male* name "Keraso" (George Babiniotis, *Hellenic Lexicon*).
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False alarm...must have been a gal!
Looked into it a bit more: the Mycenaean Keraso is accented in the last syllable (Êåñáóþ), a characteristic of feminine names.
Looked into it a bit more: the Mycenaean Keraso is accented in the last syllable (Êåñáóþ), a characteristic of feminine names.
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A "man-at-arms magistrate" and "inserted Greek"?
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