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ArchivesRe: Names with a meaning anotnimous with "chaste"?
in reply to a message by Getb2
Etymology: ram is a root that means to stop, to rest, to be glad, to have intercourse and is cognate with words related to Greek ἐρᾰτός (eratos if you don't see the Greek) + suffix = rati pleasure, passion, sexual union. It is still used as a word in languages of North India as a formal word for sexual intercourse in many North Indian languages. It is also, mythologically, the name of a wife of the God of love, kAma (another word of Indoeuropean origin, meaning love or desire), the other wife being prIti, pleasure, from the root prI described next.
prI is a root meaning to please, and is etymologically related to English friend + suffix = priYa fond of, beloved, lover. The feminine of this word is priYA.
ratipriYA follows one of the four standard word-compounding principles and means fond of sexual union. It has also been used to mean pleasant during coition. (The masculine ratipriYa would mean lover of rati, i.e. kAma). It has been used as a name in the mythological context at least since the time of the purANas, most of which reached their present form shortly after 1000AD. It is also the name of a particular Karnatic rAga, a south Indian melodic mode.
It is still used as a name, typically in South India, where the languages spoken are not of the Indoeuropean family (so names are unlikely to be analyzed into constituents), but where the mythological and religious dominance of Sanskrit has led to a large influence on onomastics. Not sure, but the Google+ profile https://plus.google.com/112197455878860864766/about does seem to belong to someone with this name.
prI is a root meaning to please, and is etymologically related to English friend + suffix = priYa fond of, beloved, lover. The feminine of this word is priYA.
ratipriYA follows one of the four standard word-compounding principles and means fond of sexual union. It has also been used to mean pleasant during coition. (The masculine ratipriYa would mean lover of rati, i.e. kAma). It has been used as a name in the mythological context at least since the time of the purANas, most of which reached their present form shortly after 1000AD. It is also the name of a particular Karnatic rAga, a south Indian melodic mode.
It is still used as a name, typically in South India, where the languages spoken are not of the Indoeuropean family (so names are unlikely to be analyzed into constituents), but where the mythological and religious dominance of Sanskrit has led to a large influence on onomastics. Not sure, but the Google+ profile https://plus.google.com/112197455878860864766/about does seem to belong to someone with this name.
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