New name

Sep. 22nd, 2009 05:02 pm
[identity profile] th3-unicorn.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] babynames
Here's a name I'd never encountered before: Mavis.
It's a girl's name of French origin, meaning "song thrush", which is the song bird Turdus Philomelos. It's supposed to be pronounced MAY-viss, as rhyming with Davis, but my reaction would be to read it as MAV-iss, rhyming with Travis.

I really like it in the latter version, also because it makes me think of "Ma vis" which could roughly be translated into "my strength", borrowing "ma" from french (my) and "vis" from latin (strength)

WDYT?

Date: 2009-09-22 09:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bluedano.livejournal.com
This is EXACTLY what I thought of! My mom's a teacher and brought a copy of this home to teach us kids to type on our old Apple computer. :P

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