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214.1 | Columbia | PARITY::DASILVA | | Mon May 23 1988 16:20 | 9 |
| Hi, When I was in school I sponsored a little girl named Ariana.
She was from the country of Columbia. Maybe that's where the
name came from.
regards,
Liz
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214.2 | Greek maybe... | CSC32::S_WATTUM | | Fri Jul 08 1988 18:26 | 6 |
| Ariana could be of Greek derivation. When we named our daughter
Ariadne (which is greek), I recal running across references to
Ariana being an "alternate" type of name.
--Scott
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214.3 | Larissa Ariana | EDUHCI::WARREN | | Mon Jul 18 1988 10:31 | 3 |
| I know of someone whose daughter's middle name is Ariana. Her full
name is Larissa Ariana Jarzylo!
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214.4 | Zodiac explains | VAXRIO::CLARICE | | Tue Jul 19 1988 10:42 | 5 |
| I'm from Brazil, and in portuguese Ariana means someone who is aries
in the zodiac. That is, someone who was borned between march 20 and
april 21.
Clarice.
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214.5 | | CECV05::GAMA | Contracting is my life | Mon May 01 1989 14:30 | 3 |
| As far as I know, Ariana was the name of a race. The white and blonde
people from the north of Europe. Ariana is a Portuguese/Spanish
spelling to Ariane.
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214.6 | A Pretty Name | SHALOT::ANDERSON | Give me a U, give me a T... | Wed May 03 1989 10:17 | 12 |
| My book has Ariane, but not Ariana. Ariane is the French form
of Ariadne, which is from the Greek. Ariadne was a daughter of
Minos who helped Theseus escape from the Minotaur's labyrinth.
I assume Ariana is simply a Latin (Spanish, Italian, etc.)
form of either Ariane or Ariadne.
The other etymologies discussed here have some truth in them,
but probably aren't where the name comes from. The Northern
people are the Aryans. The Zodiac reference is to the signs
Aries (people under that sign are called Arians).
-- Cliff
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