- Origin: Mordvin Нуят
- Meaning: “harvest.”
- Gender: Male
Nuyat is a male pre-Christian Mordvin name meaning, “harvest.”
The female form is Nuya.
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Nuyat, Nuya
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Category Archives: Autumn/Fall Names
Hãng
- Origin: Vietnamese 沆
- Meaning: “mist; evening fog.”
- Gender: Unisex
From the Sino-Vietnamese meaning 沆, meaning “mist; evening fog.”
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Meýlis
- Origin: Turkmen
- Meaning: “feast; celebration.”
- Gender: Male
The name comes directly from the Turkmen word for “a feast” or “a gathering.”
The name is also sometimes spelled Meilis.
A notable bearer is Turkmen chess champion, Meylis Annaberdiyev (b. 1985).
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Olmo
- Origin: Italian
- Meaning: “elm tree.”
- Gender: Male
- OLE-moh
The name comes directly from the Italian word for the elm tree.
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Eisa
- Origin: Old Norse
- Meaning: “glowing ember.”
- Gender: Female
- I-sah
The name comes directly from the Old Norse word meaning “glowing ember.” In Norse Mythology, this is the name of one of the beautiful daughters of Logi (fire), and Glöð (glowing embers).
Later, it came to be associated as a pet form of Elizabeth or a German form of Aise (short form of any Nordic name beginning in the Egg-, Agi– element.)
Note: the name can also be an Arabic form of Jesus.
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Logi
- Origin: Old Norse
- Meaning: “flame; blaze.”
- Gender: Male
- LOH-gee
The name comes directly from the Old Norse word for “flame; blaze,” and is also used as a poetic word for a sword. It is born in Norse Mythology by Logi, a jötunn and the personification of fire. He was the son of Fornjótr. He is known for winning a meat eating competition against Loki.
A Swedish variation is Loge
It is a cooler and fresher alternative to Logan, with a spark.
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Narat
- Origin: Tatar Нарат
- Meaning: “northern pine; fir tree.”
- Gender: Male
The name comes directly from the Tatar word for the fir tree.
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Aamaq
- Origin: Greenlandic
- Meaning: “ember”
- Gender: Female
The name is a Greenlandic female name meaning, “ember.”
Aumuk is an older spelling, while Aama/Auma are unisex variations.
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Anthracia
- Origin: Greek Ανθρακια
- Original Greek form: Anthrakia
- Meaning: “ember; burning charcoal.”
- Gender: female
- Eng (an-THRAY-shuh; Grk ahn-THRAH-kee-ah)
The name comes from the Ancient Greek noun ἄνθραξ (ánthrax), meaning “ember; burning charcoal.”
Anthracia is best known from Greek myth as one of the nymphs who nursed the infant Zeus in secret to protect him from Cronus.
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Sārta
- Gender: Feminine
- Origin: Latvian
- Meaning: “reddish; rosy; glowing; bonfire”
- Pron: SAHR-tuh
From the Latvian adjective sārts, which has two closely related meanings, either “reddish, rosy, flushed with color” or “bonfire, blaze.”
An extremely rare traditional Latvian female name, it was first and only recorded in Zemgale (Dobele) in 1929, even though it had already appeared in the Latvian name calendar of 1879.
(Source: Kalnājiņa & Švābe, KS 285.)
A rare masculine form is Sārtis, documented only once in Riga in the 1930s.
Sārtone is another variation, which is also only been record one time in Latvia in the 1920s.
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- Balodis, Pauls. Latviešu personvārdu etimoloģiskās semantikas teorētiskais modelis un tā realizācija. Doctoral dissertation, University of Latvia, 2008. https://dspace.lu.lv/server/api/core/bitstreams/ca9c09cf-e952-4022-9ac3-cb1bfaf27530/content
- https://www.behindthename.com/name/sa23rta/submitted
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/s%C4%81rts#Latvian