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BRICEIDA (f)
BRIZ (f) is the short name for BRICEIDA.
It is the name of my sister-in-law. Her name is Briceida or Briz, for short. She is from Mexico. She sometimes wonders where did her name came from also. My guess is that it is the spanish feminine for the name BRYCE, but it is just a conjecture. I'm really not sure. Could anyone help me out?
BRIZ (f) is the short name for BRICEIDA.
It is the name of my sister-in-law. Her name is Briceida or Briz, for short. She is from Mexico. She sometimes wonders where did her name came from also. My guess is that it is the spanish feminine for the name BRYCE, but it is just a conjecture. I'm really not sure. Could anyone help me out?
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Briceida/Brizeida are simply misspellings of Briseida in Spanish (Briseida is the legit Spanish form of Briseis) originated by the coincident pronunciation of C/Z/S in some Spanish dialects.
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It's not related to Bryce, but is a respelling of Briseida. Briseida is the Spanish form of Briseis, Greek “daughter of Briseus.” Briseus possibly meant “weighty, strong.” In the Greek legends of the Trojan War, Briseis was a young Trojan widow taken as a spoil of war by Achilles. In romantic versions of the story, she is often presented as being in love with him. Though Briseida has never been extremely common in Latin America, it has certainly been used more often there than Briseis has been in English-speaking countries.
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Briseis is certainly unexpected in English! But isn't that because, in literature, Chaucer used Criseyde and Shakespeare used Cressida? And they were the versions that caught on ... I wouldn't be surprised to meet an English Cressida, though it would be even less surprising to see Cressida as a type of car; perhaps a Toyota, I'm vague about cars.
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