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[Facts] Pronunciation
Trying to figure out how Dangerosa is pronounced, and what the meaning is. It's a female name. Not sure of the whole back round. I found the name related to Eleanor of Aquitaine. But the pronunciation is the part I'm most interested in. Thank you.
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I saw a post on the name Dangerosa recently on a medieval history blog & will share info as best I can remember it...- the French form is Dangereuse (roughly pronounced dahn-juh-ruhz with a soft "j" sound)
- it wasn't her given name but rather a nickname most likely given to her in childhood, with the inspiration being her personality (apparently this was a very common occurrence 1000 years ago in France!)
- dangereuse didn't mean "dangerous" until approx. the 16th century, prior to that the word most likely meant "disobedient" or "hard to please"There weren't any citations given, so take it with a grain of salt, but it makes sense to me for several reasons:
- language evolves constantly and it's been 1000 years!
- there were two main French dialects: the 'langue d'oeil' in the north and the 'langue d'oc" in the south with Dangereuse & Eleanor & Richard Coeur-Lion (this is the origin for the south of France being known as the Languedoc Region today)

Last thought- I'm pretty sure that pronunciation wasn't uniform between the two 'langues' so Dangereuse may have pronounced her name differently than our best guess, since ours is based on modern FrenchCool, eh?~ alexicon
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It would depend on the language of the person, of course. In modern French it would be something like [duñzh-rro-ZAH].
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