Message: "Maira" - Behind the Name

[Opinions] Maira

by Murasaki (lady murasaki)

9/19/2008, 1:37 AM

I was in a jewellery yesterday were, if you buy something, they make you fill in a form to be in their mailing list and so forth. There was a woman in her 20s who had just finished filling hers and I saw her name was Maira. At first I thought it was a typo and it was supposed to be Maria or Mara, but she had also signed Maira as well as printing Maira in the first name space. I assume it's pronounced MA-ee-ra(she was definitely Italian btw).

WDYT? I don't like it, I guess it's meant to be some kr8tiv form of Mara or Moira, but I think people will mispronounce and mispell it all the time.

#Maira

This message was edited 9/19/2008, 9:19 AM

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- Andromache (Hannah Ruth)

9/19/2008, 12:27 PM

Maera or Maira appears a few times in Greek mythology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maera
Maira is also an Italian river.

I really like it.

This message was edited 9/19/2008, 12:28 PM

- Lillian (LillianAMS) +1

9/19/2008, 8:26 AM

I would be more likely to pronounce it MY-ra. It could be an alternate spelling of Myra. Also reminds me of Maida and Maila.

I think it's pretty.

- Murasaki (lady murasaki)

9/19/2008, 9:22 AM

Woops, I misspelled the pronounciation, it would indeed be MA-ee-ra with the stress on the first A (corrected it now).
Now that I think about it, There's actually a chance that her parents wanted the name to be Myra pronounced the English way, rather than Mee-ra, which is how Italians would pronounce it. A bit like some girls who're named Daiana so that it's pronounced the English way, rather than Dee-ana, which is the regular Italian pronounciation of Diana.

This message was edited 9/19/2008, 9:23 AM

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