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Help[Facts] Re: Tayari
in reply to a message by tayariswife
According to the dictionary at the Kamusi Project, tayari is a Swahili word which means "ready" or "prepared":
http://kamusiproject.org/en/lookup/sw?Word=tayari
That doesn't mean that Tayari is used as a name in the countries of East Africa where Swahili is an everyday language. There are a great many Swahili words which have been turned into names by African-Americans which are not used as names in Africa. And of course Tayari could have separate derivations from other languages. I can't find any reference to a sumo wrestler called Tayari, however.
You say your husband's father "apparently got the name from a local." Has your father-in-law himself told you this or did you get this secondhand? Family stories do sometimes get garbled in transmission.
http://kamusiproject.org/en/lookup/sw?Word=tayari
That doesn't mean that Tayari is used as a name in the countries of East Africa where Swahili is an everyday language. There are a great many Swahili words which have been turned into names by African-Americans which are not used as names in Africa. And of course Tayari could have separate derivations from other languages. I can't find any reference to a sumo wrestler called Tayari, however.
You say your husband's father "apparently got the name from a local." Has your father-in-law himself told you this or did you get this secondhand? Family stories do sometimes get garbled in transmission.
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His father told me that he got the name from a local. I don't think the spelling is correct for the Japanese name that sounds more like
"tay-uri" then "tay-ari".
"tay-uri" then "tay-ari".
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In that case
Maybe it's Teuri (天売)? If it is, the meaning of the kanji doesn't make much sense to me - heaven sales. However, when I entered 'teuri', Word automatically gave me those two kanji, so maybe it does exist.
Do you know if the 'ay' sound is a short one or a long one resembling 'eh'?
Maybe it's Teuri (天売)? If it is, the meaning of the kanji doesn't make much sense to me - heaven sales. However, when I entered 'teuri', Word automatically gave me those two kanji, so maybe it does exist.
Do you know if the 'ay' sound is a short one or a long one resembling 'eh'?
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The way that John (my nail tech)pronounces the name, it is a tay-URI. So the tay is a short sound. he recognized the spelling right away though... I think that your Teuri is the closest thing I have yet though, THANK YOU!
If the name means heaven sales would that mean sold from heaven? I guess this could be a wrestler name. Who knows?
If the name means heaven sales would that mean sold from heaven? I guess this could be a wrestler name. Who knows?
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Glad I could help ;) I guess sold from heaven sounds better than heaven sales. Maybe it's a lot cooler in Japanese than it is to me in English (cool enough to be a wrestler name?). Anyway, not sure if you're interested, but after googling it, it seems Teuri is an island along the coast of Hokkaido. Not a bad namesake, if you ask me.
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Yeah, I was trying to westernize the meaning a bit with the "sold from heaven" idea... who knows? It may be a cool wrestler name or it may be that the wrestler was from that island? Thank you for your help!!!!!
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