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[Facts] Re: Chrysacona - a Greek name? + and other names
Bar means 'grain' in Hebrew.
Hanneli could maybe be a form of Hannah? 'Grace'.
Zazoe is Dutch, but I don't know what it means Couldn't find anything on Jeisa, but that it's Portuguese. Sorry. :/:]
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In Dutch, "oe" is pronounced as a long "u", as in "who", so Zazoe is the Dutch phonetic spelling of Zazu or Zasu, as in the early film actress ZaSu Pitts. Although, funnily enough, Pitts apparently pronounced her name say-zoo....
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Interesting, thanks. Wikipedia says that ZaSu Pitts' name was a combination of her aunts' names Eliza and Susan, so that would also be Zazoe's origin.
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