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Heard a name...
by Shurochka
2/19/2006, 8:31 PM
...but don't know how it's spelled or what its origin is.The name was pronounced J+eye+uh (the J sound like the J in juice). Its owner was a 3-year-old boy. I wish I had asked more on the background.Does anyone have any spelling/origin info on it?
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- Cleveland Kent Evans (clevelandkentevans)   +1
2/20/2006, 12:30 PM
Where did you hear this? What was the child's ethnicity?My first guess would be that this was an East Indian child and that the name was Jaya, from the Sanskrit word for "victory." There are many male names in India that start with Jaya, such as Jayakrishna and Jayashankar.
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- তন্ময় ভট (guest)
2/21/2006, 6:29 PM
The problem is the first a in jaYa is either the vowel from English cut or that in English cot, it is not the one in English car. The last a is usually silent or same as in cut. I can't match the original poster's j-eye-uh with this, but it may be I am reading too much into this.
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