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Help[Facts] Zildy's Name
Thank you still very much. I like "lucky". Is there an organization that you can contact to give them her name and a meaning that I've come up with? I know for sure her parents made the name up.
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her parents made up the name, but Sildi is a nickname of the Spanish name Casilda (Casilda>Casildita>Sildita>Sildi). Some authors think that Casilda comes from the Arabic qasida (a kind of Arabic and Persian poem), but Roberto Faure suggests a Germanic origin because of the ending -ilda (from the Germanic -hild, "battle").
The confusion between S and Z is a usual misspelling in American Spanish, where C/Z/S has the same sound (Sildi, Cildi and Zildy in American Spanish sound the same).
And for the Y as vowel, it is a misspelling in Spanish, but it is not hard to see this use in nicknames (specially feminine) in an attempt to anglicize: Bassy (for Basi, from Basilisa), Emy (Emiia>Emi>Emy)Dely (Adelina>Delina>Deli), Nardy (Leonarda>Leonardita>Nardita>Nardi), Cary (Caridad>Cari>, etc.
Lumia
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her parents made up the name, but Sildi is a nickname of the Spanish name Casilda (Casilda>Casildita>Sildita>Sildi). Some authors think that Casilda comes from the Arabic qasida (a kind of Arabic and Persian poem), but Roberto Faure suggests a Germanic origin because of the ending -ilda (from the Germanic -hild, "battle").
The confusion between S and Z is a usual misspelling in American Spanish, where C/Z/S has the same sound (Sildi, Cildi and Zildy in American Spanish sound the same).
And for the Y as vowel, it is a misspelling in Spanish, but it is not hard to see this use in nicknames (specially feminine) in an attempt to anglicize: Bassy (for Basi, from Basilisa), Emy (Emiia>Emi>Emy)Dely (Adelina>Delina>Deli), Nardy (Leonarda>Leonardita>Nardita>Nardi), Cary (Caridad>Cari>, etc.
Lumia
http://onomastica.mailcatala.com
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Sorry! Please see Give a Name a Meaning to follow the discussion or give any information. Thank You!
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