På tal om namn...

[Milja]

Jag har en dotter som heter Timea. Vi har förgäves sökt ta reda på vad hennes namn betyder under flera års tid men utan resultat. Jag tror att det kommer från Ungern. Nån som vet nåt mer???

[Anna-Carin]

Google hittade den här förklaringen på :

<i>A number of people have asked us what the name means and about its origins. The name is known in Hungary, and we have never seen it used outside of some Hungarian connection. Within Hungary it is widely believed (well, it's what everyone tells me) that the name is the invention of the romantic author Mór Jókai (1825–1904) in his 1873 novel Az Arany Ember (Golden Man). In the novel the name is spelled Timéa. I don't know when it acquired its modern form, but it should be noted that were as a massive language/spelling reform in Hungary at the end of the 19th century. I (Jeff) have not read the novel (and I've only seen snippets of the movie based on it), but I understand that Timéa was a young Turkish women who agrees to marry the story's hero to escape poverty, but does not (initially) love him. To the best of our limited knowledge, the name is not Turkish.

There is reference to a Timaea/Timaia in Plutarch's Life of Agasilaus. Timaea was the wife of King Agis II of Sparta (427–399 BC) and had a child by Alcibiades, forcing him to flee to Persia. Following a lead from Timea Szell that the name means something like "honor" in ancient Greek and with the help of the humanities.classics newsgroup, I was quickly pointed to the masculine form of the name, Timaeus/Timaios, meaning "honor" or "highly prized".</i>

Så namnet verkar inte precis höra hemma i svensk vikingatid eller medeltid... [;)]

[Milja]

Nope...det vet jag redan. Det där med att Timea är populärt i Ungern pga att en känd författare hade en kvinna med det namnet i en av sina romaner, det hade jag kläm på, men det andra det var nytt för mig. Nåja, ett steg närmare kom jag ialla fall. TACK FÖR HJÄLPEN!!!