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ArchivesRe: history behind the name "Calma"
in reply to a message by Ålefeskarn
How interesting! Are modern Norwegians still so inventive, or have they joined the global village and started naming their daughters Mikkaela like the rest of the silent majority?
Ovidea - should be Ovidia if they were commemorating the Latin poet, but close enough! Kamila -> Camilla, the warrior princess in Virgil who ran so fast the ears of wheat didn't bend as she passed. And Fernanda - Abba got the male version from somewhere ... drat, now I'll be whistling that annoying tune all day! But these parents do sound as if their classical education meant a lot to them!
Calma seems too, well, tranquil for them! But I've known two Carolines who were, independently, nicknamed Cal. Calma could be a merger between Caroline and Mary, or the Norwegian forms thereof, to pacify the grandmothers perhaps?
Ovidea - should be Ovidia if they were commemorating the Latin poet, but close enough! Kamila -> Camilla, the warrior princess in Virgil who ran so fast the ears of wheat didn't bend as she passed. And Fernanda - Abba got the male version from somewhere ... drat, now I'll be whistling that annoying tune all day! But these parents do sound as if their classical education meant a lot to them!
Calma seems too, well, tranquil for them! But I've known two Carolines who were, independently, nicknamed Cal. Calma could be a merger between Caroline and Mary, or the Norwegian forms thereof, to pacify the grandmothers perhaps?
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