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Post by ceinach on Jul 23, 2007 10:54:00 GMT -1
Hmmm....very intriguing! I suspect siobhan is just a Gaelicised version of Joanne, Joan etc (cf. welsh siwan). si - is normally used for j- (so sean = john). A yellowhammer is called 'siobhainin bui' [/shuworneen bwee/ or /shuvorneen bwee/] in Irish, 'little yellow Joanie'! I tried 'Robin' for a while but my husband laughed so much i gave up. PS Fiach is indeed raven. There's several 'raven' names - Fiachra is another one. Thanks Megli, not sure I like the Little Yellow Joanie but yellowhammer would be nice.... Oh and it could be Fiachra not Fiachna - will have to check with them... To my lovely husband and fellow grover woodsmoke I will pretend you didn't post those comments.... for now!
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Post by potia on Aug 8, 2007 13:07:35 GMT -1
Now I know that a Yorkshireman is supposed to be a Scotsman without a sense of humour but as far as I am aware,'hen' is used by our Scots brothers and sisters (Potia?) In my part of Yorkshire - where they go shoo-it-ing and wear boo-its, the phrase you are looking for is 'Na-then' or 'Ow-do'. Being an honourary Scot (or at least that's how I think of myself as I've been 18 years in Glasgow now) I can confirm that in Glasgow you get called 'hen' sometimes As to names I use Potia for two reasons one is that it was given to me in a rather powerful mediation a few years ago now and the other is much more practical. The practical side of things is that my day to day name is Pauline and here in Glasgow there is a Wiccan Pauline who has been very active within the Pagan community. She used to run a very successful moot amoung other things and it got confusing when both of us turned round every time someone said Pauline. At one stage there was a third Pauline in the Glasgow moots scene too. So far I've not come across another Potia Other reasons for names - we named our first child Rowan before he was born as we both liked the name and it was gender neutral (we didn't know what sex we were getting when we decided on the name). I also liked the fact that the Rowan berries were ripe on the trees where we lived at the time he was born too. Oddly enough the name just seemed to fall into place very naturally. Our second not yet born we have decided to call Rose - again we both like the name and we know we have a daughter this time around. We looked at lots of different names but kept coming back to Rose as one we both liked from early on. Again it feels right. Blessings Potia.
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