Names (was Re: Reminder - Weekly Chat

[naamagatus]

Combining here a few posts here: 

Alice:
>I wasn't even sure Naama (or Anamar) was your real name(s), I seem 
>to be hopelessly out-of-date concerning names. I still think >people 
are called Katherine and Julia and, well, Alice.

Laura:
>One of my fellow Physics majors here is named Naama, but everyone 
>calls her Aba. Hrm . . . I can't think of any other Naama's though >-
- perhaps it's only common in certain regions?

Naama:
I wouldn't have thought that any American is called Naama. It's an 
Israeli name. Possibly your fellow student is originally from Israel, 
or has Israeli parents?

Annemehr:
>Just curious: is your name any relation to the name "Naomi"? I 
>never knew anyone called Naama before HPfGU, but I did know two 
>Naomis when I was a child; one was Israeli but I'd see her >whenever 
she visited the States in the summer during the '60s.

Naama:
I'm not an expert on semitic languages, but I'm pretty certain that 
both names derive from the n-a-m root, the basic meaning of which is 
pleasant. Both are Biblical names, by the way, although Naomi, as one 
of the main characters of Ruth, is much more known.


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