Matching Names
Found 1 matching names:P
| Name | ☼ | European | Old Spelling | |||
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| Name | ☼ | European | Old Spelling | |||
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| ▸ | Pavia | Pavia | ||||
| Pavia is a Greenlandic pronounciation of Paul (Poul). Poul Egede, the son of the first missionary Hans Egede, wrote in 1722, that when they went home to eat after having been with the Greenlandic youth, women and children would stand outside and shout "Pauia and Nese. The first was Paul and the other Niels. They couldn't pronounce them otherwise. Pauia was one of their names, and nese was porpoise, nise in Norwegian" (Mads Lidegård: Efterretninger om Grønland, København 1988, p. 19). Until present everyone has assumed that the name Pavia derived from the Greenlandic pronounciation of Paul. Poul Egede refers to a Greenlandic name, and it is probably the name 'Puvia' or 'Pouvia' which is to be found in the myth about Puvia who was abducted by the giant women from the inland (Myter og Sagn fra Grønland, I 1978, s. 237 - 244, a variant of this myth English can be read in English at W. Thalbitzer, 1914: The Ammasalik Eskimo, I, Meddr. Grønland 39(5): 257 - 259.) The name may be derived from 'puiaq' (crop of a ptarmigan), which is also an approved girls and boys name. | ||||||