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HelpRe: Would you deem these bad meanings?
in reply to a message by MasterCiaraXo
People with these kinds of opinions on name meanings just make me roll my eyes a bit. Like, surely, if your name isn't literally "Married" then it doesn't actually currently mean that in English, which is presumably the language you can be reasonably expected to worry about. And lots of words mean lots of different stuff in different languages so worrying about accidental homonyms would be truly futile.
As for etymologies, they are often a bit murky or it was a process where spellings and pronunciations changed from the original word to become its own thing, a new word in its own right, which is derived from a word that means or used to mean something. It doesn't mean that the new word still actually means the same thing as the previous word.
It's nice to get inspired by a "meaning", be it etymological or an accidental homonym. If it makes you love a name more or it inspires you that's awesome! It gets a bit much when people get too hung up on whether the name meaning will fit the child. I literally know a person who was almost named Chiara but popped out of the womb with a black mane on their head and the parents hurriedly changed it. Which is hilarious in all the worst ways.
https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/109883
As for etymologies, they are often a bit murky or it was a process where spellings and pronunciations changed from the original word to become its own thing, a new word in its own right, which is derived from a word that means or used to mean something. It doesn't mean that the new word still actually means the same thing as the previous word.
It's nice to get inspired by a "meaning", be it etymological or an accidental homonym. If it makes you love a name more or it inspires you that's awesome! It gets a bit much when people get too hung up on whether the name meaning will fit the child. I literally know a person who was almost named Chiara but popped out of the womb with a black mane on their head and the parents hurriedly changed it. Which is hilarious in all the worst ways.
https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/109883
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