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in reply to a message by halfstargazer
I assume you think this is Korean because of Hettienne Park:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1782292/bio
As you can see her profile on IMDB claims she was named after a "bird in a Korean fairy tale." I suppose that's possible, but the spelling Hettienne is frankly very odd for a Korean name and must have been "Frenchified" from a Korean original, if it is in fact Korean at all. You have to be careful about the explanations of stage names given by actors and actresses. Some of them have been known to make up stories for the media that sound good but really aren't true. Yul Brynner used to tell reporters his first name was Mongolian for "beyond the horizon", when it was just a Russified version of Jules, the name of his Swiss-born grandfather.
You'd have to find someone who knows about Korean folk tales to recover a possible Korean original for the name and have it interpreted, I think. :)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1782292/bio
As you can see her profile on IMDB claims she was named after a "bird in a Korean fairy tale." I suppose that's possible, but the spelling Hettienne is frankly very odd for a Korean name and must have been "Frenchified" from a Korean original, if it is in fact Korean at all. You have to be careful about the explanations of stage names given by actors and actresses. Some of them have been known to make up stories for the media that sound good but really aren't true. Yul Brynner used to tell reporters his first name was Mongolian for "beyond the horizon", when it was just a Russified version of Jules, the name of his Swiss-born grandfather.
You'd have to find someone who knows about Korean folk tales to recover a possible Korean original for the name and have it interpreted, I think. :)
This message was edited 12/12/2009, 11:02 AM
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Thanks. I did see the site when I looked up the name "Hetienne" but I couldn't find anything concrete on the name itself. Thanks again for your help, Cleveland Kent Evans, I appreciate it!
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You're welcome. I sent an email asking about this name to a friend who lives in Korea, where he teaches English as a second language to university students. Here is his reply:
I checked with the grad student in our department office and her freshman assistant. Neither one could figure out what "Hettienne" might refer to. They even tried all sorts of Internet searches -- nothing.
There IS a mythical beast called a "heatea." It's the "lion-dog" kind of animal often done up in stone that sits in front of temples and palaces and eats fire -- at least fire threatening the temple or palace.
But that's a different vowel (both syllables). So it doesn't look like it's the probable source.
I checked with the grad student in our department office and her freshman assistant. Neither one could figure out what "Hettienne" might refer to. They even tried all sorts of Internet searches -- nothing.
There IS a mythical beast called a "heatea." It's the "lion-dog" kind of animal often done up in stone that sits in front of temples and palaces and eats fire -- at least fire threatening the temple or palace.
But that's a different vowel (both syllables). So it doesn't look like it's the probable source.
This message was edited 12/15/2009, 4:06 PM
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Thanks so much for all your trouble! I saw this name somewhere and liked and wrote it down in a notebook, and when I tried looking for its meaning I couldn't find out anything on it.
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