[ANSTHRLD] Name documentation help
Amanda Bowen
reason_prevails at hotmail.com
Wed Sep 22 15:47:57 PDT 2004
>A submitter is looking to see if "Gilana" came about. I know that it
>is hebrew for "joy" but I don't know when it was first used and if it
>would be appropriate. It is pronounced with a G as in "give".
Hm... The first thing I do when I don't have any books about is take a
cursory glance through St. Gabriel. I didn't come up with "Gilana" but there
are some similar looking names. I also looked through Reaney's DES, since it
was on my desk.
Anyway, the results of a cursory glance through St. Gabe's, looking for
similar names:
Aryanhwy's Jewish names in France article
(http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/levy/) has "Gelein". I wouldn't expect
the names to come from the same root, however. This is coincidence.
Ary's Perigeux article (http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/perigueux.html)
has "Gileta". Again, different roots. Coincedence.
Reaney's DES has "Giliana" which is of course a variant of "Juliana".
So that's close (some closer than others, admittedly.) but still no dice. If
anyone happens to find it though, I'd certainly love to see. It's a very
nice name.
Galiana
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