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in reply to a message by pearltree2
I'm sorry, but Dewanna is extremely unlikely to mean anything like "bright moon" in the Cherokee language. If you will check the Cherokee-English lexicons or dictionaries available on the web, you will easily see this. For example, the phonetic representation of the word "moon" on the Cherokee Nation website lexicon is:
S v no yi e hi nv do
(Cherokee websites use "v" to represent an "uh" sound, so this means the word for "moon" is pronounced something like "Suh-no-yee-ae-hee-nuh-doe").
http://www.cherokee.org/Culture/Dikaneisdi.aspx?Tab=Culture
There is a huge amount of misinformation out there claiming that certain names are "Native American" when they are not. Some of this comes from people wrongly assuming that any unusual name borne by a person with Native American ancestry must come from a Native American language. Other misinformation comes from people assuming that names used for American Indian characters in novels or in movies must be accurate, when such names and their "translations" have often been made up by the authors or screenwriters purely from their own imaginations.
Cherokee is the Native American culture names are most commonly falsely attributed to. This is probably because the Cherokees are one of the best know tribes, and because they had a status in the Southern US as the supposedly most "civilized" tribe.
Dewanna is most likely someone's creation. There is of course a possibility that it is from a Native American language other than that of the Cherokees, but I doubt it.
S v no yi e hi nv do
(Cherokee websites use "v" to represent an "uh" sound, so this means the word for "moon" is pronounced something like "Suh-no-yee-ae-hee-nuh-doe").
http://www.cherokee.org/Culture/Dikaneisdi.aspx?Tab=Culture
There is a huge amount of misinformation out there claiming that certain names are "Native American" when they are not. Some of this comes from people wrongly assuming that any unusual name borne by a person with Native American ancestry must come from a Native American language. Other misinformation comes from people assuming that names used for American Indian characters in novels or in movies must be accurate, when such names and their "translations" have often been made up by the authors or screenwriters purely from their own imaginations.
Cherokee is the Native American culture names are most commonly falsely attributed to. This is probably because the Cherokees are one of the best know tribes, and because they had a status in the Southern US as the supposedly most "civilized" tribe.
Dewanna is most likely someone's creation. There is of course a possibility that it is from a Native American language other than that of the Cherokees, but I doubt it.
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