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Also used in Romansh: https://www.portraitarchiv.ch/portrait?page=352
Genovefa von Weber (née Brenner; 1764 – 1798) was a German opera singer and actress. She was the mother of composer Carl Maria von Weber.
Also Slovene: https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genovefa
As mentioned before, this is also the Latvian form: https://www.pmlp.gov.lv/lv/sakums/statistika/personvardu-datu-baze/?id=137&query=Genovefa.
This is the Latvian form.
Czech and Breton version is Jenovefa.
The Celtic form Genovefa, which seems to be cognate with the Irish name Findabair, can be translated as "The White Enchantress" or "The White Fay/Ghost", from Proto-Celtic *Windo- "white, fair, holy" + *seibara "magical being" (cognate with Old Irish síabair "a spectre, phantom, supernatural being [usually in pejorative sense]").Despite the name's similarity to the Old English words jenefer, genefer and jinifer.Czech version is Jenovefa.
This is also the German form of the name.
I prefer this to Genevieve, which is not as uncommon as some may think.

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