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i would like to know how the names natalie and natasha would have been pronounced and spelled in the year 106 ad. origin is irrelevant to the information i am looking for. i want to know if these names did not exist what names would have been used that are much like natalie and natasha back in 106 ad....
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Natasha started out as a Russian nickname for Natalia, which is the "long" form of Natalie. So your names are the same.
Natalia did not exist in 106AD. Since it is a Latin name, it is important to its history if not to you where it originated and why.
People in the Latin-speaking world named their daughters very simply, with one name of family origin. None of those names meant "born" - since every baby is born, it would have seemed very silly to them even to use "born" as a nickname.
When Christianity became an organised religion, and we're probably looking at the 4th century AD now, people changed their names when they converted: a new faith, a new life, a new name. And Natalia, commemorating both her own rebirth and that of Jesus, came into use.
Natalia existed as a word in 106AD, and would have sounded like nah-TAH-lee-ah. But not as a name.
Natalia did not exist in 106AD. Since it is a Latin name, it is important to its history if not to you where it originated and why.
People in the Latin-speaking world named their daughters very simply, with one name of family origin. None of those names meant "born" - since every baby is born, it would have seemed very silly to them even to use "born" as a nickname.
When Christianity became an organised religion, and we're probably looking at the 4th century AD now, people changed their names when they converted: a new faith, a new life, a new name. And Natalia, commemorating both her own rebirth and that of Jesus, came into use.
Natalia existed as a word in 106AD, and would have sounded like nah-TAH-lee-ah. But not as a name.
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This is a rather strange question, and I don't know how to answer.
One thing is clear however, if you ask me: Your question does not make sense if you don't indicate a language. Even in 106 AD there were a multitude of languages, and pronounciations always depend on language.
So what did you have in mind? Latin? Greek? Hebrew? Something other still?
One thing is clear however, if you ask me: Your question does not make sense if you don't indicate a language. Even in 106 AD there were a multitude of languages, and pronounciations always depend on language.
So what did you have in mind? Latin? Greek? Hebrew? Something other still?
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