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HelpRe: Agree on "et" / "ette" & (more)
in reply to a message by mirfak
I agree on the "et" / "ette" ending or suffix, due to the meaning.
I would consider these names synonymously, ascertaining each various form to be specific personalized preferences. Immediately below, I've copied a query I posted a few years prior when I first joined the site. During times when young, I more wondered than wanted, but partially wanted as well, why I would not have a name associated with the feminine which more closely resembled the male form Julius or Julian: hence I wondered why I am not Julie or Jill: though named for different reasons, I found these names considerably nicer or softer than my own while I simultaneously had a crush on a girl named Julie during the nineteen-eighties; and shortly after, liked a girl named Jill.
Probably the best known sources for the names Julius & Julian are from the famed Roman emperors. Many spelling variants combine "Julie with Anne", with little variance from Julian, and are frequently used to name females. Jillian is yet another variant more exclusively retained by females, yet this variance is guarded with greater fortification - and perhaps with greater ferocity because of the "Jack and Jill" nursery rhyme. Is there anything wrong with the name Jillian for a boy with the (occasional) nickname Jill? Is there anything wrong with the (occasional) nick-name Julie for a boy? I saw the names Julian and Jillian on Diet Coke bottles this week - and on a few Behind the Name texts, which led me to reconsider this - which I've considered previously.
I would consider these names synonymously, ascertaining each various form to be specific personalized preferences. Immediately below, I've copied a query I posted a few years prior when I first joined the site. During times when young, I more wondered than wanted, but partially wanted as well, why I would not have a name associated with the feminine which more closely resembled the male form Julius or Julian: hence I wondered why I am not Julie or Jill: though named for different reasons, I found these names considerably nicer or softer than my own while I simultaneously had a crush on a girl named Julie during the nineteen-eighties; and shortly after, liked a girl named Jill.
Probably the best known sources for the names Julius & Julian are from the famed Roman emperors. Many spelling variants combine "Julie with Anne", with little variance from Julian, and are frequently used to name females. Jillian is yet another variant more exclusively retained by females, yet this variance is guarded with greater fortification - and perhaps with greater ferocity because of the "Jack and Jill" nursery rhyme. Is there anything wrong with the name Jillian for a boy with the (occasional) nickname Jill? Is there anything wrong with the (occasional) nick-name Julie for a boy? I saw the names Julian and Jillian on Diet Coke bottles this week - and on a few Behind the Name texts, which led me to reconsider this - which I've considered previously.
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