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A colleague in her 60s has just become a grandmother for the first time. Her name is Moya, and the baby's name is Maya Lily. I'm not sure how I feel about it!
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Maya is very pretty. The combination together makes me think of an Italian saying, "my lily," which is a little distracting. But it's not really that big of a deal. Overall I give the combo the thumbs up. And they get bonus points for not spelling it Mya. Zoiks, but that bugs me.
This message was edited 12/8/2010, 9:49 AM
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Moya is more of a last name to me. Maya is sweet but I don't love it. Maya Lily is sweet.
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Moya
I've never seen Moya as a ln. Here, it's the word for wind and hence for inspiration and (I think!) the Holy Spirit in the Zulu language. My DH looked at it wistfully when we had a daughter, but I put my foot down!
By coincidence, it sounds rather like the Afrikaans word for "pretty" in some grammatical structures, though there's no etymological link at all.
I've just checked Moya as a user-submitted name: somebody cited it as being "African" (which is rather like calling Portuguese and Finnish "European" and expecting it to mean something meaningful) and meaning "great"; which it does not in this corner of Africa anyway.
I've never seen Moya as a ln. Here, it's the word for wind and hence for inspiration and (I think!) the Holy Spirit in the Zulu language. My DH looked at it wistfully when we had a daughter, but I put my foot down!
By coincidence, it sounds rather like the Afrikaans word for "pretty" in some grammatical structures, though there's no etymological link at all.
I've just checked Moya as a user-submitted name: somebody cited it as being "African" (which is rather like calling Portuguese and Finnish "European" and expecting it to mean something meaningful) and meaning "great"; which it does not in this corner of Africa anyway.
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