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Help[Facts] Re: Where does my first name Kysha come from
in reply to a message by keywes992212
As often with names that have undergone heavy respelling, it is not easy to tell. There are some candidate roads of derivation
1) From Biblical Hebrew Keziah "cassia, cinnamon"
2) From Latin Cassia—this does NOT mean cassia, but derives from cassus "void, empty"
3) From Arabic Aisha "living, alive" with the popular K prefix (that has no meaning on its own, but also occurs in names like Kayden). This kind of derivation started in the 1980ies, the other two already proliferated a lot of names two decades earlier.
but it is hard to impossible to decide which derivation is predominant or meant in some specific instance of the name. Did you try and ask your parents what is in your name?
--elbowin
1) From Biblical Hebrew Keziah "cassia, cinnamon"
2) From Latin Cassia—this does NOT mean cassia, but derives from cassus "void, empty"
3) From Arabic Aisha "living, alive" with the popular K prefix (that has no meaning on its own, but also occurs in names like Kayden). This kind of derivation started in the 1980ies, the other two already proliferated a lot of names two decades earlier.
but it is hard to impossible to decide which derivation is predominant or meant in some specific instance of the name. Did you try and ask your parents what is in your name?
--elbowin
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