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I need some help figuring this one out. I have been with hubby 9 years and have loved names the whole time but never found his.
The only meaning of Tayari I have found is one that was originally found on the website for Tayari Jones, a female author, where she claimed it was swahili. After that I saw it popping up here and there with the same definition as her web site.
I'll tell you why I don't think it's credible:
Hubby was named by his father who was stationed in Japan. His father apparently got the name from a local.
In addition, the man who has done my nails for years told me about how he lived in Japan for some time and there was a sumo wrestler named Tayari there. I don't know if maybe the spelling is different but I am looking for the Japanese meaning of Tayari.
Does anyone have any clues?
The only meaning of Tayari I have found is one that was originally found on the website for Tayari Jones, a female author, where she claimed it was swahili. After that I saw it popping up here and there with the same definition as her web site.
I'll tell you why I don't think it's credible:
Hubby was named by his father who was stationed in Japan. His father apparently got the name from a local.
In addition, the man who has done my nails for years told me about how he lived in Japan for some time and there was a sumo wrestler named Tayari there. I don't know if maybe the spelling is different but I am looking for the Japanese meaning of Tayari.
Does anyone have any clues?
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Tayari is definitely a Swahili word meaning ready or prepared. No question. It doesn't mean though it can't mean anything in another language.
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According to the dictionary at the Kamusi Project, tayari is a Swahili word which means "ready" or "prepared":
http://kamusiproject.org/en/lookup/sw?Word=tayari
That doesn't mean that Tayari is used as a name in the countries of East Africa where Swahili is an everyday language. There are a great many Swahili words which have been turned into names by African-Americans which are not used as names in Africa. And of course Tayari could have separate derivations from other languages. I can't find any reference to a sumo wrestler called Tayari, however.
You say your husband's father "apparently got the name from a local." Has your father-in-law himself told you this or did you get this secondhand? Family stories do sometimes get garbled in transmission.
http://kamusiproject.org/en/lookup/sw?Word=tayari
That doesn't mean that Tayari is used as a name in the countries of East Africa where Swahili is an everyday language. There are a great many Swahili words which have been turned into names by African-Americans which are not used as names in Africa. And of course Tayari could have separate derivations from other languages. I can't find any reference to a sumo wrestler called Tayari, however.
You say your husband's father "apparently got the name from a local." Has your father-in-law himself told you this or did you get this secondhand? Family stories do sometimes get garbled in transmission.
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His father told me that he got the name from a local. I don't think the spelling is correct for the Japanese name that sounds more like
"tay-uri" then "tay-ari".
"tay-uri" then "tay-ari".
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In that case
Maybe it's Teuri (天売)? If it is, the meaning of the kanji doesn't make much sense to me - heaven sales. However, when I entered 'teuri', Word automatically gave me those two kanji, so maybe it does exist.
Do you know if the 'ay' sound is a short one or a long one resembling 'eh'?
Maybe it's Teuri (天売)? If it is, the meaning of the kanji doesn't make much sense to me - heaven sales. However, when I entered 'teuri', Word automatically gave me those two kanji, so maybe it does exist.
Do you know if the 'ay' sound is a short one or a long one resembling 'eh'?
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The way that John (my nail tech)pronounces the name, it is a tay-URI. So the tay is a short sound. he recognized the spelling right away though... I think that your Teuri is the closest thing I have yet though, THANK YOU!
If the name means heaven sales would that mean sold from heaven? I guess this could be a wrestler name. Who knows?
If the name means heaven sales would that mean sold from heaven? I guess this could be a wrestler name. Who knows?
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Glad I could help ;) I guess sold from heaven sounds better than heaven sales. Maybe it's a lot cooler in Japanese than it is to me in English (cool enough to be a wrestler name?). Anyway, not sure if you're interested, but after googling it, it seems Teuri is an island along the coast of Hokkaido. Not a bad namesake, if you ask me.
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Yeah, I was trying to westernize the meaning a bit with the "sold from heaven" idea... who knows? It may be a cool wrestler name or it may be that the wrestler was from that island? Thank you for your help!!!!!
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You can write Tayari with kanji, but in my software no specific kanji come up for it, only phonetic ones. I've also googled tayari in hiragana and nothing special comes up (most of the results are blongs anyway), it's mostly a word ending in -ta and the next one beginning with yari-. Sorry I can't be of more help.
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My granddaughter's name is Tayari. We were told it is an Indian name, so now I'm confused. Could it be a Native Indian name, specifically from Mexico??
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It could be, but you get a lot of these stories and almost all of them are not. Given the history of race relations in the US I suspect it may be a story meant to hide African ancestry. A lot of people believed it was far more acceptable to be part native American than part African.
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