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The name Tara comes from Ireland, being a hill where they would meet and where kings would be crowned. In Spanish, the word for earth is tiara.
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The name is thought to have originated with 'Téa' (pronounced something like 'TEE-yeh'), a mythological Irish queen. The hill of Tara, originally called Teamhair (pronounced tee-YEH-wir) is named after her. Queen Téa is called 'the just' in some legends, which is a nice connotation :). Another interesting point is that Queen Téa is said to have brought the Lia Fáil (The Stone of Destiny) to the Hill of Tara, where it still stands today.
As a side note, I am Irish, this is my name, and I pronounce it TARE-ah. In my time in Ireland, no one corrected me on the pronunciation or called me tah-ra. Honestly, it can be pronounced either way.
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As a side note, I am Irish, this is my name, and I pronounce it TARE-ah. In my time in Ireland, no one corrected me on the pronunciation or called me tah-ra. Honestly, it can be pronounced either way.
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Terra in Latin or Tierra in Spanish is the equivalent for the English word Earth.
I live in Australia, and I came into contact with ancient Aboriginal languages that use the word Yarra, which means water, and there is even a river flowing through Melbourne having that name. Since Aboriginal people had migrated to Australia, some 60,000 years ago, long before the Greeks came from India and settled in Europe in two waves, some 7,000 and 5,000 years ago, I believe the word Terra or Tierra come from Tyarra, which means a place with flowing water. This name can be applied to a region or to the whole planet.
It is no coincidence that similar names were retained in the ancient Assyrian language.
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I live in Australia, and I came into contact with ancient Aboriginal languages that use the word Yarra, which means water, and there is even a river flowing through Melbourne having that name. Since Aboriginal people had migrated to Australia, some 60,000 years ago, long before the Greeks came from India and settled in Europe in two waves, some 7,000 and 5,000 years ago, I believe the word Terra or Tierra come from Tyarra, which means a place with flowing water. This name can be applied to a region or to the whole planet.
It is no coincidence that similar names were retained in the ancient Assyrian language.
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Also a Serbian name after the Tara mountain in Serbia.
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I understand this is the anglicized spelling of the Gaelic word, but still, I don't believe the usage of the name is English. The name "Tara" is still an Irish name, not English, because it's still an Irish place that the name comes from. This is my middle name, and I don't think of it as an English name, just as I wouldn't the name Erin, or Shannon. Even if the spelling isn't Irish Gaelic, I do believe the name still is, or at least is shared with the English usage.
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The name Tara can actually be originated from Terra, which in Latin means Earth. I am not quite sure how Terrible and Terror came into the midst of such a beautiful name!
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Terra meaning earth in Latin and the Gaelic Tara are completely different names, and often pronounced differently.
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This name is not even remotely derived from the Latin word "terra" - it existed in Sanskrit long before Latin was even thought of. It is correctly pronounced Tah-rah by everyone in the world, except for some Americans who have heard it mis-pronounced in the movie "Gone with the Wind".
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