Re: [tied] name MARIA, MARY, MARIA

From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 11485
Date: 2001-11-25

On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 11:37:12 +0100, "Che" <almogaver69@...>
wrote:

>About equivalents used as different names, but being just different forms of "Maria" /m@'ri@/, right now I can tell at least one: "Mireia" /mi'rEj@/, which is very popular within our women.

Mireia (popularized by Mistral's Mirèio, Fr. Mireille) is not from
Miryam/Maria, but from Mirella (Lat. dim. of mirus/mira "admirable").


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