alex_lycos wrote:
>No I don't know.
No doubt about that.
>1) "Geta" is an attested Dacian name, one of
>the wifes of Phillip.
It has nothing to do with onomastic idiosyncrasies
of the Romanian people up to the 19th century.
If Romanian parents choose Geta as their
daughter's name, this thusly is an ultrarecent
fad -- due to literature & the fondness of tales
pertaining to the ancient past.
You'd have a point only if there were a proof
that between ancient Geta and Geta of the 20th
and 21st century there was a... continuity.
>2)Which is the feminine from in Greek for Giorgios?
I don't know and I don't care. It is enough for
me to know that both Romanians and other people
have used feminine names derived from George.
>gherghita
In my previous post I forgot to mention a further
aspect: let's be very cautious with forms such as
the above. Because it can also be a Romanianized
form of the Hungarian variant for Gregory:
Gergely ['gaer-gaej, a pronunciation that can easily
be assimilated by the Romanian ear as Gherghe (which
is one of the numerous Romanian variants for George).
>or gherghina, pay attention to missing "o" too)
No problem here: this is old Romanian *tradition and
lore* that masc. Gherghe and fem. Gherghina mean
George and Georgina/Georgette. (And again: Gherghe
and Gherghina are *not* typical of *my* subialectal
region, but they are typical of *your* region.
Cunoaste-ti patria!)
George