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Help[Opinions] Re: Maeva
in reply to a message by Canielle
Maeve is nice, but Maeva is weird. May + va? Perhaps, but the spelling gives a Me + Eva vibe which is disconcerting. Meeting in the jungle: "Me Eva! You Tarzan?"
I can see that the first girl for three-quarters of a century would be cause for celebration; perhaps also cause for naming the lassie Eve or some variant. (My grandmother told me that they'd named my aunt Eva "because she was our first child"; I said "So if she'd been a boy, would you have named him Adam?" And she looked shocked and startled!) But the spelling is already going to be confusing because there is an Irish variant with the vowels switched: Meave. So first you disentangle that issue, then you wonder if Maeva has two syllables or three, and then ... I dunno, you give up and have a Guinness, I suppose!
I can see that the first girl for three-quarters of a century would be cause for celebration; perhaps also cause for naming the lassie Eve or some variant. (My grandmother told me that they'd named my aunt Eva "because she was our first child"; I said "So if she'd been a boy, would you have named him Adam?" And she looked shocked and startled!) But the spelling is already going to be confusing because there is an Irish variant with the vowels switched: Meave. So first you disentangle that issue, then you wonder if Maeva has two syllables or three, and then ... I dunno, you give up and have a Guinness, I suppose!
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