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in reply to a message by Lily
I'm always a little suspicious of meanings from Native American names. For some reason I think people take a lot of liberties with them. I'm not saying Michael J. Fox is deliberately doing that. And who knows, he could be right? But I'd need some more scholarly verification, personally. Latin "aqua" does mean water, but why would Native Americans use a Latin based root word? It just smells fishy.
I don't care for the sound of it. I thought about Aquinas (as in Thomas Aquinas) for a boy, as a GP only. I like that long "i" sound much better.
Instead of Aquinnah, how about Alannah (with a short "a" sound is in "land")? If you're into Native American names, I've heard of Chenoa ("sheh-NO-uh") before. But I don't know it's meaning.
I don't care for the sound of it. I thought about Aquinas (as in Thomas Aquinas) for a boy, as a GP only. I like that long "i" sound much better.
Instead of Aquinnah, how about Alannah (with a short "a" sound is in "land")? If you're into Native American names, I've heard of Chenoa ("sheh-NO-uh") before. But I don't know it's meaning.
This message was edited 6/20/2010, 12:38 PM
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I've heard that Chenoa means "dove"...
I have no idea how reliable that is, though :)
I have no idea how reliable that is, though :)
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It's a place name
I googled it and a town and some cliffs near Martha's Vinyard, Massachusetts came up. I didn't dig any further -- it's not unheard of for Native American names to be used like this. Just thought I'd let you know.
I googled it and a town and some cliffs near Martha's Vinyard, Massachusetts came up. I didn't dig any further -- it's not unheard of for Native American names to be used like this. Just thought I'd let you know.
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