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Help[Facts] Re: Kaiis
in reply to a message by Hannah
This looks to me like it's origin is a mistake in understanding the spelling of an ancient Persian name.
Geena Davis's husband is of Iranian descent. Her other two children, Alizeh and Kian, have obviously Persian names.
If you Google "Kaiis" and take out all references to Geena Davis, you get several hits on an ancient Persian king who ruled along the Caspian Sea in the 11th century. This king seems to have been named called Kai Kaus, but Kaus is very often written with diacritical marks, as Káús, Kaús, or Kaüs. Most of the "hits" in Google itself for "Kaiis" turn out to be references to Kai Kaús, where the search engine seems to have mistaken "ú" for "ii".
About 200 years after the first Kai Kaús, there was a governor or king of Bengal (modern Bangladesh) with that name, evidently named after the Persian king. A couple of references to him on the Web do seem to spell his name as Kai Kaiis.
It seems to me that Geena Davis and her husband were looking for ancient Persian names to give their twins, and like a lot of parents of twins, were looking for two names that began with the same letter. I think they found Kaús somewhere and misread it as Kaiis, as many other people obviously have. That seems to me at the moment to be the best explanation, if no one can find an interview with Ms. Davis herself that explains it.
Geena Davis's husband is of Iranian descent. Her other two children, Alizeh and Kian, have obviously Persian names.
If you Google "Kaiis" and take out all references to Geena Davis, you get several hits on an ancient Persian king who ruled along the Caspian Sea in the 11th century. This king seems to have been named called Kai Kaus, but Kaus is very often written with diacritical marks, as Káús, Kaús, or Kaüs. Most of the "hits" in Google itself for "Kaiis" turn out to be references to Kai Kaús, where the search engine seems to have mistaken "ú" for "ii".
About 200 years after the first Kai Kaús, there was a governor or king of Bengal (modern Bangladesh) with that name, evidently named after the Persian king. A couple of references to him on the Web do seem to spell his name as Kai Kaiis.
It seems to me that Geena Davis and her husband were looking for ancient Persian names to give their twins, and like a lot of parents of twins, were looking for two names that began with the same letter. I think they found Kaús somewhere and misread it as Kaiis, as many other people obviously have. That seems to me at the moment to be the best explanation, if no one can find an interview with Ms. Davis herself that explains it.
This message was edited 9/27/2009, 6:51 AM
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