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It's an elaboration of Katia or Katya, perhaps inspired by Tatiana. Katia is an abbreviated form of Yekaterina, from Greek Aikaterina, perhaps borrowed from Coptic (St Katherine was from Alexandria in Egypt); perhaps from Greek Hekateros "either, one of two"; if related to Hekate then perhaps from Caria in Western Anatolia where Hekate may have been a pre-Indo-European deity later adopted by the Greeks, and where other names perhaps related to Hekate are recorded. As the meanings of only a few dozen words of the dominant pre-Indo-European language of Western Anatolia (Hattic) have been deciphered from references in Assyrian and later Hittite documents, the meaning of Hekate and related names are unknown. Hekate is just one of several "Greek" deities (other examples are Aphrodite and Adonis) whose origins are from outside the Greek and even Indo-European culture.

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