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your opinion on raetoromanic names (swiss)

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jaabaar · 31/08/2009 21:30

Hi,

Just wanted to know your opinions as non-raetoromanic to the following names:

Ladina
Luzia
Livia
Imelda

Thanks

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Sarimillie · 31/08/2009 21:41

Livia is lovely. Not wild about the others, although Luzia is fine.

frakkinpannikin · 31/08/2009 21:45

Livia I like. Imelda is also really nice and unusual. Luzia I guess would depend on the pronunciation (and she'll proabably always have to spell it).

Ladina I'm really not keen on though.

mrswoolf · 31/08/2009 21:46

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bluebump · 31/08/2009 21:48

I like Livia.

MrsVik · 01/09/2009 07:49

I like them all! Livia was on our list for a while (love the nn Liv) but with our harsh sounding German surname, it sounded too much. Luzia is very close to the name we have chosen!

bellissima · 01/09/2009 08:23

Like Livia (deliciously ruthless Livias in Roman dramas - fraid that greatly appeals!). Not sure about the rest (much prefer Lucy to Luzia/Lucia but then I'm just being parochial). Imelda would always get asked about her shoe collection.

TwoPersephone · 01/09/2009 08:49

Ladina sounds like a comedy ladette name, not a wise choice.

Others are lovely

MrsBadger · 01/09/2009 09:23

Livia much the best IMO

Feierabend · 01/09/2009 09:27

Definitely not Ladina. The other ones are fine although Livia would work best in an English speaking environment I think.

BonsoirAnna · 01/09/2009 09:35

Agree with others that Livia is a lovely name.

FatFree · 01/09/2009 12:24

Gonna buck the trend and go with Luzia

phdlife · 01/09/2009 12:26

sorry to be so thick but what's raetoromanic?

MrsVik · 01/09/2009 12:30

A language spoken in Switzerland alongside German, French and Italian.

Those Swiss, they think they're so clever....

:P

phdlife · 01/09/2009 12:34

oh that's interesting - I saw a paper once on swiss tv that went on and on about the three languages, never mentioned that... or did it? [hates-sleep-deprived-memory-loss emoticon]

TwoIfBySea · 01/09/2009 12:37

Quite like Luzia too, unusual but lovely.

jaabaar · 01/09/2009 21:32

Thank you for all the messages! CAn really be an eye opener!!
Imelda is my mum's name and since she went through a lot of things to raise me and provide for me and I am only daughter I thought I would use her name as my daughter's name.

However I might now use it as second name!

Raetormanic is the 4th language spoken in Switzerland! And this langauge is again split in 4 different grammars! Only about 40,000 people speak Sursilvan which is my raetoromanic! So I must make sure at least I use a raetoromanic name and teach the langauge!

Thanks to all appreciate!

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edam · 01/09/2009 21:39

Love Livia, Imelda's fine, Ladina and Luzia woudln't be my choices personally but if they suit your baby then who am I to criticise?

Am all in favour of keeping smaller languages alive, btw. As the daughter and DIL of Welsh men I made sure ds had a Welsh name. (Not that I can actually speak Welsh, unfortunately.)

edam · 01/09/2009 21:40

Don't think any of the names would be too tricky for people in England to handle, btw. Yes, the last two are unusual, but there are lots of names from different cultures around these days.

dogofpoints · 01/09/2009 21:42

didn't it used to be called romany? That's what we were told at school

BonsoirAnna · 01/09/2009 21:43

I thought it was Romanche.

thisisyesterday · 01/09/2009 21:46

i like Livia and Imelda

in fact, just yesterday i was waiting outside marks and spencer for someone and i suddenly thought "Imelda, that's a good name"

i have NO idea what prompted it. i am not pregnant, nor do i know anyone who is. i have only sons.

maybe it's an omen

jaabaar · 02/09/2009 21:26

ROMANY!!!??? No nooo dont confuse with romanian!

Romanch is also one way my language is called. Or raeto-romanic.

Thanks again for all the comments!

Really appreciate!

Engrazia (thanks!)

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MrsSchadenfreude · 02/09/2009 22:06

Oooh, I like unusual languages. Teach me some more! Like all of your names except Imelda (I had an evil nanny called Imelda) and Ladina (which sounds too much like Ladino - a Sephardic Jewish language!).

pranma · 02/09/2009 23:03

I like Imelda and Livia

NadiaWadia · 03/09/2009 00:53

Luzia sounds nice. Is that the equivalent of Lucy in your language.

Livia also very nice (but there is the association with the poisoning wife of Emperor Augustus of course)

Ladina - not so good.

Imelda - Marcos. Corruption and massive shoes collection. Not a good association maybe?

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