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Re: Plant names for boys
Hi !!!Aciano is better than "cornflower" but I prefer the French 'bleuet' or the Italian 'ciano (CHA-no) or 'fiordaliso'.The word 'fiordaliso' is tricky. It means both the common name 'cornflower' and a literarian way to say 'lily' (fiordaliso is the Italian translation for fleur-de-lis).Among all these names the one I would choose to say "cornflower" would be Ciano....A plant name that I found recently is Aritz، a Basque name meaning 'oak'. I would not use it anyway because too close to Eretz ("land, earth" in Hebrew especially Eretz Israel).Personal Name Lists https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/125456

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Aritz is interesting. Do you pronounce it like air-its? Eretz doesn't seem like a particularly bad association.
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