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Help[Facts] Aoide is a Greek name, not Irish
in reply to a message by Daividh
"AOIDE
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Áïéäç (Greek)
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Means "to sing" in Greek. In Greek mythology she was one of the original three muses, the muse of song."
A Greek Pronunciation Guide (ancient Greek, biblical or koine Greek and modern Greek):
http://www.biblicalgreek.org/links/pronunciation.html
Lumia
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Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Áïéäç (Greek)
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Means "to sing" in Greek. In Greek mythology she was one of the original three muses, the muse of song."
A Greek Pronunciation Guide (ancient Greek, biblical or koine Greek and modern Greek):
http://www.biblicalgreek.org/links/pronunciation.html
Lumia
http://onomastica.mailcatala.com
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True enough, but...
I was basing my response on the (perhaps optimistic) premise that there can only be so many ways to mangle a nightmarish vowel string like "aoi" within the Indo-European language family. Could be wrong.
It's safe to assume that most Irish spelling was probably concocted late at night in a haze of unfiltered cigarettes, grain alcohol, and chronic depression, but what were the GREEKS thinking? If Pavlos is any example, they were probably just messin with our heads...
I was basing my response on the (perhaps optimistic) premise that there can only be so many ways to mangle a nightmarish vowel string like "aoi" within the Indo-European language family. Could be wrong.
It's safe to assume that most Irish spelling was probably concocted late at night in a haze of unfiltered cigarettes, grain alcohol, and chronic depression, but what were the GREEKS thinking? If Pavlos is any example, they were probably just messin with our heads...
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An ode to Guinness draught
...again I beg to disagree at the risk of causing our ancient mariner Daividh a hangover.
In fact, Aoide or Aoede -- also a satellite of Jupiter -- is derived from ÁïéäÞ, who also happened to be one of the muses.
Aoede is rerived from the verb "aeido", to sing. Another famous beer, err, word, with the same root is "ode".
...again I beg to disagree at the risk of causing our ancient mariner Daividh a hangover.
In fact, Aoide or Aoede -- also a satellite of Jupiter -- is derived from ÁïéäÞ, who also happened to be one of the muses.
Aoede is rerived from the verb "aeido", to sing. Another famous beer, err, word, with the same root is "ode".
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