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Help[Opinions] Theodate
Heard this on a YouTube video. It's a woman's name.
What do you think?
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As others said, finding out the origin was a journey... I wish I liked the sound, because the meaning is neat. People and battle, so "people of the battle" or "battle of the people / people's battle"? Either way a pretty cool meaning, I'd totally use a name meaning either of those things.
But if it's said theo-dayt it's just clunky, and not the clunky-but-cute kind.
But if it's said theo-dayt it's just clunky, and not the clunky-but-cute kind.
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Looks like “The date” from far away.
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WEIRD. And supposedly American? I like how it tricks me into thinking it's about God, but really, it's about people.
This message was edited 11/8/2023, 11:56 PM
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Yeah, it was an American woman who lived during the Gilded Age.
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I'm afraid I think of a sibset: Theodate, Theofig and litle Theoraisin. I can't see the point: Dorothy or Theodora would be fine.
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Pronunciation?
If it's Theo-Dayt that's ugly and weird
if it's Tayo-Dah-tay or Theo-Dah-tay that's awkward but interesting
if it's Theo-dah-tee that's ugly and weird ("dotty")
if it's Theo-Day-tee ... that's kinda cool. Although a bit synthetic and "difficult" because it looks like Theo-Dayt and I thought of dates (the food).
If it's Theo-Dayt that's ugly and weird
if it's Tayo-Dah-tay or Theo-Dah-tay that's awkward but interesting
if it's Theo-dah-tee that's ugly and weird ("dotty")
if it's Theo-Day-tee ... that's kinda cool. Although a bit synthetic and "difficult" because it looks like Theo-Dayt and I thought of dates (the food).
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I feel like it could be Theodaitë. It's already come so far from Theudahad to suit taste, why not go another step.
This message was edited 11/9/2023, 6:38 AM
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It's not too far off Theodatus, which (it seems to me) was likely misinterpreted as meaning the same as Theodor* ... since Deodatus means that. Like Theodoric, it might have been a quasi-deliberate respelling / misinterpretation of a pagan name, at some point. By someone who arrogated the authority to themself because they had control of the pen.
I got the idea of pronouncing the E from Mithridates (also a "given" meaning).
Anyway I agree, since it's been modified to suit anyway, you could spell it however you want.
Like Mellisant :) And also kinda like a bajillion other names. Maybe all names.
What I'd like to know is, how does anyone really know how a name was pronounced in the nineteeth century? Everybody who would have known is long dead ... so how do we know? It might actually have been pronounced Theo-day-tee, if there is no direct evidence otherwise.
I got the idea of pronouncing the E from Mithridates (also a "given" meaning).
Anyway I agree, since it's been modified to suit anyway, you could spell it however you want.
Like Mellisant :) And also kinda like a bajillion other names. Maybe all names.
What I'd like to know is, how does anyone really know how a name was pronounced in the nineteeth century? Everybody who would have known is long dead ... so how do we know? It might actually have been pronounced Theo-day-tee, if there is no direct evidence otherwise.
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The YouTuber said Theo-dayt.
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That's a new one for me! Finding the root form of this name as submitted to the site was a fun journey, I never would have thought it was Germanic. It has nothing to do with the usual Theo-names, and I wasn't expecting that.
Did they have the pronunciation on YouTube? I like this funny old name, it's growing on me by the second.
Did they have the pronunciation on YouTube? I like this funny old name, it's growing on me by the second.
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I think I encountered this name on Wikipedia a few years ago. I love its antique mystique.
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Don't like it at all
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