New Post
Search
HelpCo-worker BA (kind of)
So one of my co-workers recently became an aunt for the second time. Her brother already had a daughter named Etta, and they just had another girl who they named Lye.
I'm really bad at describing how it's spelled, but more like Lia/Lea than 'lie'. There's a place on Gotland (Sweden) called Lye, which she's named after.
WDYT? Personally I really like it. I was a bit surprised at first, but it has grown on me.
We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.
PNL: http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/45898
Top rated: Alice and William
Bottom rated: Dolly and Alvin
I'm really bad at describing how it's spelled, but more like Lia/Lea than 'lie'. There's a place on Gotland (Sweden) called Lye, which she's named after.
WDYT? Personally I really like it. I was a bit surprised at first, but it has grown on me.
PNL: http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/45898
Top rated: Alice and William
Bottom rated: Dolly and Alvin
Archived Thread - replies disabled
1
Replies
At first I assumed you live in the US, but once I saw how it's pronounced and the meaning behind it I liked it :) And Etta is lovely as well.
1
Its nice. Etta is pretty as well.
1
The first thing I though of was the English word lye (lut), caustic and dangerous. I don't even like Lye with a Swedish pronounciation. If they wanted to name the girl after a place in Gotland, I wish they could have chosen Roma instead (but at least they didn't choose Tuttar...)
Etta is OK as a nn for Henrietta or similar, but on its own I think it's a bit silly, since it actaully means "number one". I had a relative called Elvan (number 11), btw.
Etta is OK as a nn for Henrietta or similar, but on its own I think it's a bit silly, since it actaully means "number one". I had a relative called Elvan (number 11), btw.
This message was edited 3/7/2018, 4:17 AM
1
Painful, IMO. It reminds me of lye, a chemical that's used for desiccation. This name just seems terrible if it's used in an English-speaking country.
This message was edited 3/6/2018, 1:49 PM
1
I like Lye more than Etta. I mean, if it's pronounced like lee-yeh (and she, you know, never goes anywhere where people only speak English and are uncomfortable about foreign names looking like English words and insist that her name is the English word "lye" pronounced like "lie"). It wouldn't work well where I live.
Etta is a nothing name to me, I think of it as a diminutive suffix, so it seems sort of like naming a person Bitty or Tiny.
Etta is a nothing name to me, I think of it as a diminutive suffix, so it seems sort of like naming a person Bitty or Tiny.
This message was edited 3/6/2018, 10:03 AM
1
That's awful.
Etta got so lucky.
Etta got so lucky.
1
I'm thinking the opposite. We're not living in an English speaking country, so I don't think it would be a big deal. Etta actually means "one" in Swedish, so that's weirder to me.
1
Lye is what we use to clean our drains. We have lye on hand because my daughter uses it to make soap, so there's no need to go buy Drano.
Lye is caustic. That's why my daughter has to wear goggles when she makes soap. We have to be very careful when we use it on the drains.
So no matter how it's pronounced, I find Lye to be a ridiculously awful name.
Lye is caustic. That's why my daughter has to wear goggles when she makes soap. We have to be very careful when we use it on the drains.
So no matter how it's pronounced, I find Lye to be a ridiculously awful name.
1
Ha. I didn't even know lye was an English word. Google translate for the win.
1
I know you're not in an English speaking country but just like when someone tells me that "Pippa" means something that I would want to avoid as a name in a non-English language (or Galen for example), I try to steer clear of them in our increasingly globalized world if I'm aware. Obviously only very unappealing meanings but it changed how I felt about Philippa "Pippa" completely.
I have ended up in a part of the world that I'd have never imagined and that I'm sure my parents never did either. From my graduating class of a little over 110, there are about 15-20 of us living abroad (US, UK, Belgium, Norway, Germany, Kenya). I don't want to knowingly put my kid in an odd situation. Lye falls into that for me. It would be different if it was an established and classic Swedish name though.
I have ended up in a part of the world that I'd have never imagined and that I'm sure my parents never did either. From my graduating class of a little over 110, there are about 15-20 of us living abroad (US, UK, Belgium, Norway, Germany, Kenya). I don't want to knowingly put my kid in an odd situation. Lye falls into that for me. It would be different if it was an established and classic Swedish name though.
1
Janice said it best.
1