Message: "No it isn't" - Behind the Name

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No it isn't

by Loxandra (E.K.)

3/30/2008, 12:26 PM

in reply to a message by Akua Topaz

I know better the femine form of Peter in Greek is Petroula...

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- Akua Topaz (SentimentalArgument) +3

3/30/2008, 12:33 PM

There can be two feminine forms of one name, much in the same way that Georgina and Georgia are both latinate feminine forms of George. Perhaps the site is wrong, but Petra is listed as a Greek name here.

- Loxandra (E.K.) +2

3/30/2008, 12:35 PM

In Greece

femine form of Peter is Petroula and George is Georgia

- Rachel Shay (Evil) +1

3/30/2008, 12:42 PM

But isn't George Georgios?

- Loxandra (E.K.)

3/30/2008, 12:44 PM

Yes

it's Georgios (Giorgos in pet name) just like isn't Peter it's Petros

- Rachel Shay (Evil) +1

3/30/2008, 12:27 PM

http://www.behindthename.com/name/petra

Can't there be more than one feminization?

- Loxandra (E.K.)

3/30/2008, 12:30 PM

I 've seen that ...

but it's wrong.No for Petros is only Petroula. Petra is German

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