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Hi,
I have been looking for the meaning of this name for a long time. It was my great-grandmother's first name (Cyotha). I know that she was from Arkansas and had an Irish ethnic background. When I do Internet searches for this name I come up with a lot of genealogical records from the South, so it must not be that uncommon. I've never found it in a directory of Irish names, though. Does anyone have any clues?
Liz
I have been looking for the meaning of this name for a long time. It was my great-grandmother's first name (Cyotha). I know that she was from Arkansas and had an Irish ethnic background. When I do Internet searches for this name I come up with a lot of genealogical records from the South, so it must not be that uncommon. I've never found it in a directory of Irish names, though. Does anyone have any clues?
Liz
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Ar- kansans! Bomb diggity. 54th in literacy rate. I've never heard of that name. How is it pronounced?
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Liz
I haven't pestered one of my Irish professors in about a month, so I guess I'll pester him with your question. ;) If he doesn't know offhand, he knows where to look. :)
Phyllis (aka Sidhe Uaine or Gaia Euphoria)
I haven't pestered one of my Irish professors in about a month, so I guess I'll pester him with your question. ;) If he doesn't know offhand, he knows where to look. :)
Phyllis (aka Sidhe Uaine or Gaia Euphoria)
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The name sciotha as far as I can tell was mis-spelled by Daniel Boone who visted the scioto river in Ohio. Scioto was a shawnee word which is roughly translated "deer hair". Actual translation is lost in time. The river Scioto was apparently named such because there were many deer and when they shed hair it floated down the river in large amounts. My grandmother also had the siotha. Many people having native backgrounds use this name in it's different forms. Especially tribe in the south such as Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw.
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Hey, just checked back on this message board-- Thanks, Jon, for giving me the answer to a very long search. I would never have stumbled upon it otherwise.
I never suspected I might have native ancestry, either.
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