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Snjezana/Snežana
The etymology of the name is given as sneg (snow) and žena (woman). THIS IS FALSE. The name is an adjectival form of the word "sneg" and there is a male version of the name, Snežan, which supports my claim. If it was sn(j)eg (snow) + žena (woman) it would be Sn(j)ežEna not Sn(j)ežAna. The name Snjezana* is also Serbian, Slovenian, Russian etc so under the name Snjezana it cannot be stated "from croatian..." but "from slavic...". The name in Serbian is both Snežana and Snježana.*The name Snjezana is misspelled. It should be SnjeŽana, not SnjeZana.Can somebody fix this please?Thanks

This message was edited 5/25/2009, 8:42 AM

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Snjezana/Snežana  ·  mssdm  ·  5/25/2009, 8:40 AM
Re: Snjezana/Snežana  ·  Lea M  ·  5/26/2009, 3:36 PM
Re: Snjezana/Snežana  ·  Shaymin  ·  5/25/2009, 9:06 AM
Re: Snjezana/Snežana  ·  mssdm  ·  5/27/2009, 7:33 AM