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Aotar - more suggestions?
In Estonian, Aotar means the daughter of the dawn. It´s a female name, originally a descriptive one, found in documents of the XVIth Century. Are there any suggestions that the name can be found in other cultures?Lemuel
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The closest cultures would be those of the other Baltic countries (Latvia and Lithuania), Finland, and Russia.The female suffix -tar also exists in normal Finnish words (kuningatar, ruhtinatar) and some old female names (Ilmatar, Suometar). However, the name Aotar is unknown over on this side of the gulf.
Lass
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