- Origin: Greenlandic
- Meaning: “cowberry; lingonberry.”
- Gender: Female
The name is from the Greenlandic and means “cowberry; lingonberry.”
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Category Archives: Autumn/Fall Names
Ekene
- Origin: Igbo
- Meaning: “thanks; gratitude.”
- Gender: Unisex
- EH-KEH-NEH
The name is from the Igbo meaning “thanks; gratitude.”
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Selema
- Origin: Mordvin Селема
- Meaning: “elm.”
- Gender: Female
The name is derived from the Mordvin, sele (elm).
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Oytuman
- Origin: Uzbek
- Meaning: “misty moon; foggy moon.”
- Gender: Female
The name is composed of the Uzbek words, oy (moon) and tuman (mist; fog).
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Dagolitus
- Origin: Gaulic
- Meaning: “good feast.”
- Gender: Male
A Gaulic name meaning, “good feast.”
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- https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dagolitus#Gaulois
- Jean-Paul Savignac, Dictionnaire français-gaulois, La Différence, 2004, ISBN 978-2729115296, page 62
Vīksna
- Origin: Latvian
- Meaning: “elm tree.”
- Gender: Female
- Pronunciation: VEEKS-nah
A rare autumnal Latvian female name, it comes directly from the Latvian word for “elm tree.” It was recorded in use in the 16th-century but is now obsolete.
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- Balodis, Pauls. Latviešu personvārdu etimoloģiskās semantikas teorētiskais modelis un tā realizācija. PhD diss., University of Latvia, 2008. Accessed via DSpace. https://dspace.lu.lv/server/api/core/bitstreams/ca9c09cf-e952-4022-9ac3-cb1bfaf27530/content
Kohu
- Origin: Maori
- Meaning: “mist; fog.”
- Gender: Unisex
The name comes directly from the Maori word for “mist; fog; haze; smog.”
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Nihar, Nihara
- Origin: Sanskrit
- Nihar: निहार, नीहार
- Nihara: निहारा, नीहारा
- Meaning: “mist; dew; fog; hoarfrost; snow.”
Nihara is a Sanskrit female name which comes directly from the word for “mist; dew; fog; hoarfrost; snow.”
The masculine form is Nihar.
Another female form is Nihari.
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Daetor
- Origin: Greek Δαίτωρ
- Meaning: “to light; to burn; to kindle; divider; judge; host of a feast.”
- Gender: Male
- Modern Greek: Daitor (DYE-tore)
- Eng pron: DAY-tor
The name is derived from the Greek δαίω (daio) meaning, “to light; to burn; to kindle,” and “to divide, share, tear” or “to host a feast.” The element has the same meaning as distributing justice, items or food.”
It is borne in the Illiad by a minor character, a Trojan warrior who attacked the Greek fleet during the tenth year of the Trojan war and was subsequently shot dead.
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- Homer, Iliad 8.275
- Homer, Iliad 8.273-280
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daetor
- https://logeion.uchicago.edu/%CE%B4%CE%B1%CE%AF%CF%89
Ptelea
- Origin: Greek Πτελέα
- Meaning: “elm tree.”
- Gender: Female
- Eng (TEL-ee-ah)
The name is from the Greek word for the elm tree, in Greek mythology, this was the name of one of the Hamadryad nymphs. Ptelea presided over elm trees.
In botany, this is the name of a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family, Rutaceae. Thus names by Carl Linnaeus due to its similar appearance to the elm tree.
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