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There is a Swedish woman with this name, though it is certainly not a Swedish name. Her surname is Spanish, so I guess that she comes from Latinamerika.
Maybe it is related to the Aztec Quetzalcoatl. I don't know it Quetzala is an old, "real" name or a new, "made-up" name, maybe inspired by the Aztecs.
Has anyone met this name? I don't know how it is pronounced, but I would say "ket-ZAH-lah".
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Maybe it is related to the Aztec Quetzalcoatl. I don't know it Quetzala is an old, "real" name or a new, "made-up" name, maybe inspired by the Aztecs.
Has anyone met this name? I don't know how it is pronounced, but I would say "ket-ZAH-lah".
"But it’s all right now.
I learned my lesson well.
You see you can’t please everyone
So you got to please yourself."
Rick Nelson, GardenParty
"It does not become me to make myself smaller than I am." (Edith Södergran 1891-1923)
This message was edited 3/30/2006, 9:29 AM
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Quetzala seems to be a river name in Mexico
Found on this site
http://rbt.ots.ac.cr/revistas/49-2/tovilla/tovilla.html
- At the mouth of the Quetzala river, 3.5 ha of mangroves were felled and burned by the resident community in February of 1992, i.e., after the aforementioned study, which allowed us to study the environmental changes caused by the elimination of the original vegetation cover, as well as the succession of plants that sprouted in the time the land was used for maize crops, and after being abandoned. -
Maybe it is also used as a girls name there
Found on this site
http://rbt.ots.ac.cr/revistas/49-2/tovilla/tovilla.html
- At the mouth of the Quetzala river, 3.5 ha of mangroves were felled and burned by the resident community in February of 1992, i.e., after the aforementioned study, which allowed us to study the environmental changes caused by the elimination of the original vegetation cover, as well as the succession of plants that sprouted in the time the land was used for maize crops, and after being abandoned. -
Maybe it is also used as a girls name there
This message was edited 3/30/2006, 12:07 PM
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I know how you mean and I've wondered, too! All I know is that Quetzal is a bird found in Latin America. It's gorgous and looks like a flying jewel.
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Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if only one remembers to turn on the lights
~Albus Dumbledore
We have to invade Aghan...Afagahn...Afganh...Afghna...Affg...Iraq ~ Dubya
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And apparently the quetzal part means "feather" so it is a valid etymological element (as opposed to, say, "quet").
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