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HelpRe: Swedish top 100 for 2014! (and almost ALL names given to Swedish newborns 2004-2014?!)
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I love a lot of these tbh and a lot more on the full lists. I like it more than the American one, I think. But then, that is probably cause there more unusual here.
I gotta say though, Moa made me chuckle. I looked up cause it looks Hawaiian/Polynesian, so to see it means "mom" and is said MOO-ah loooolll
My PNL = http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/37275
Top: Henry & Eloise (main) / Percival & Ember (GP) / James & Gwendolyn (top25)
Bottom: Athos & Jacoba (main) / Dinadan & Melpomene (GP) / Corvo & Deva (top25)
I gotta say though, Moa made me chuckle. I looked up cause it looks Hawaiian/Polynesian, so to see it means "mom" and is said MOO-ah loooolll
Top: Henry & Eloise (main) / Percival & Ember (GP) / James & Gwendolyn (top25)
Bottom: Athos & Jacoba (main) / Dinadan & Melpomene (GP) / Corvo & Deva (top25)
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It's not the word we use for mum (which is usually mamma); actually I've never heard "moa" used as a synonym for mum. I would guess it's derived from an old dialectal word for mum, "mora", which sounds more like "moa" in some southern Swedish dialects.
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