Re: names of misscriptive origin (was: RE: A question and introduction
| From: | Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 13, 2002, 5:23 |
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--- John Cowan wrote:
> A related case is the name Wendy, which has no normal etymology,
> and first appeared AFAWK in James Barrie's play _Peter Pan_.
> Supposedly, it's a childish pronunciation + hypocoristic of
> "friend", i.e. [fwEndi].
Interesting! I always thought that Wendy was a diminution of Gwen or
Gwendolyn...
Jan
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