Re[2]: [tied] Re: Town, Zaun, and Celtic Dun-

At 1:29:45 PM on Saturday, August 22, 2009, Rick McCallister
wrote:

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> Very true, but Imani, Aisha, Moesha, Jamila, Amina,
> Mu'amun, Ali, Omar, etc are rooted in Arabic and these
> names are very common among my students.

None of these is at all common amongst mine; I think that
in 34 years I've had one <Imani> and one or two <Ali>s. And
mine is an urban university in Cleveland with a large
African-American enrolment and a lot of students from the
Near and Middle East. (And of course <Ali> as a *feminine*
name is mostly in origin a variant of short forms of
<Alison>.)

> Tia, Tiaa, Tiya, Kiya etc. are names of Egyptian queens
> and princesses and are common.I point out to my students
> that Susan, Candace, Monica, Phineas and possibly Mary (if
> from Egyptian Mery "beloved" rather than Hebrew Maryam
> "bitter sea") are all African names as well

<Susan> is of Hebrew origin. For <Monica> North African and
Phoenician origin have both been suggested, but the actual
origin remains unknown.

Brian