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cybalist@egroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> MG's three daughters (Danute, Zivile and Rasa, all good Baltic
>girls' names).
>
You're too romantic about these names. The first is most likely not
Baltic - Danu`te.<(u`te. diminutive of) Dana`<(short form of)
Danie~le.<...<(K@...'ani:t_) Da:ni:'e:l. Others are not very good in
terms of genuineness: Z^ivi`le. (properly Z^y'vile.) is coined by
writer S^atrijos Ragana (female :) on the base of real names (like
Z^y'bantas, Z^a~dvilas etc.); Rasa` is coined by XIX romantic writers
after cognominal Baltic goddess '(morning) Dew'.
By the way, my wife's Lithuanian name - Dai'va - is coined by writer
Vidu_nas, it's just a transliteration of Old Indic daiva 'fate',
which is, as it seemes to me, is a *deiu- derivative. Could anybody
on the list comment this?
Sergei