Message: "Weird Polish Names"

Weird Polish Names

by Shaymin

7/16/2009, 9:56 AM

I have asked this before but never got any responses, does anyone know the origin and meaning of Wisenna, I found it here,

http://gorny.edu.pl/imiona/index.php

http://legitnames.blogspot.com

#Polish

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- Kirke (guest) +4

7/16/2009, 2:38 PM

Shaymin,

My first language is Polish and I can't make sense of this one. I asked my mom and she can't place it but said it sounds like something from a story or legend and could even be transliterated from a language with a different alphabet.

I was getting ready to hit post when I found this Polish wiki entry for Wizenna/Wisenna:

http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizenna

It appears that a woman named Wizenna/Wisenna was the first abbess of a Benedictine convent in Staniątki founded by her parents. During the Tatar/Tartar raids she saved the community by taking a picture of the virgin Mary in procession around it(or so the legend says).

- Katica (earthnut) +1

7/17/2009, 2:34 PM

How is Wisenna / Wizenna pronounced?

This message was edited 7/17/2009, 6:17 PM

- Kirke (guest)

7/17/2009, 4:14 PM

Wisenna is vee-SEHN-nah
Wizenna is vee-ZEHN-nah

Both Ns are pronounced.

- Shaymin +1

7/16/2009, 6:24 PM

Thanks so much. I figured that it might have been a derivative of the word wiosenna. Do you have any idea where Cypinia comes from?

- Kirke (guest)

7/16/2009, 6:36 PM

I was thinking it might come from wiosenna too.

I don't know about Cypinia. I'm going to keep looking for info on it though!

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