Message: "Minik and Ivalo" - Behind the Name

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Minik and Ivalo

by Sigrid (Beautiful Victory)

4/14/2011, 12:22 PM

The girl's name is spelled Josephine Sophia Ivalo Mathilda :)
http://kongehuset.dk/publish.php?id=28791

Minik means "viscid train oil which is being used as sealing for skin boats" (http://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Minik)
Ivalo is a variant of Ivalu and means "tendon, thread, sinew" (http://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Ivalu)
They're Greenlandic names.

I like both kids' names, although I think Josephine is so boring and Vincent is a little out of place...

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- Cristi-es

4/14/2011, 4:35 PM

I would have preferred Sofia, not liking Sophia so much.

- Aine (poetic_freedom) +1

4/14/2011, 1:01 PM

Sorry, I got my information from here - http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/people/royal-twins-christened-vincent-and-josefine-20110415-1dg94.html

I just quickly googled the story on Google News and it seems like there are about 10 different combinations of spellings running on different news sites - Josefine / Josephine / Josefina, Sofia / Sophia, and Ivalo / Evalo (although there seems to be some consensus that Evalo is wrong).

- Malin (nilamalin)

4/14/2011, 1:17 PM

ignore

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