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in reply to a message by skye
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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