Dutch/Freisian name - Yttje - does anyone know the English equivalent?

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Hi, does anyone know the meaning of this Dutch/Freisian name or know of an English equivalent to it?

How is it pronounced??

It's pronounced Eat ya as far as I know. I think there may be alternative spellings, cant remember them at the moment though, possibly yttse

Yvette? Of course we don't really have that "tje" (cha) in English.

hetty?

the "je" literally means little, so nintje means "little bunny" there are lots of Dutch names that don't have english equivalents.

Something like Evie perhaps?

Etta? Ettie? Hester ?

nanette

I immediately thought of Etta, (it was the name of one of the friends of an Apprentice candidate that they interviewed and I thought it was a really nice name at the time, unusual but not wierd! Not sure of meaning though.

I think Etta is a very pretty name.

thanks - didn't know about the je meaning little that is useful. We haven't anyone to ask but the name is important for family reasons, may just stick with original. xx

ps I LOVE Evie but Dp hates it, got a while to worry about it though we ended up with a ds! but I thought I would ask seeing as lots of people go on here

I'll ask DutchOma for you , think I have her email addy. I know an elderly Etta, her proper name is Henrietta!

I was quite perplexed by Cargirl's e.mail. Friesian names are quite an entity on their own and I have never heard the name Yttje, let alone being able to suggest an English alternative, so sorry.
I had a friend who was called Ietje, but I can't remember what her full name was. Dutch people do that:- they give their children beautiful long names and then call them something totally different: my niece has twins called Rozemarijn Francien and Helena Hendrika and they are called Renske and Lonneke.