Re: [tied] name MARIA, MARY, MARIA

Thanks for your rectification. Sometimes one is told something when he's young and later it is difficult to remove it from his head.

I had always thought as I said, and it made sense. Anyway, yours makes more sense.

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From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal

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Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 1:06 PM

Subject: Re: [tied] name MARIA, MARY, MARIA

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"). ======================= Miguel Carrasquer Vidal mcv@...

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