Eric,
My eldest daughter's name is Alva Maura, but nothing of
levantine origin:
We concocted it from Alfred and my wife, Eva.
But Maura, my mother's name I believe has.
Could you please inform?
Alfred
From: eric pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Goanet] Portuguese Names.
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 00:52:38 -0400
I will sound like a broken record to many of you as i harp on Ugarit,
again ! That mother of all kingdoms faded into history in 3000 BC, along
with it's last kings - Ammit and Ammitappu. It covered what would become
the
eSyria Levant today, but it drew on the Nile Delta for its early
peopleing,
and furnished Turkey with the Hatti Kadesh. These "Hittites" were the
stem-
cells of todays Indo-Europeans who stretch from Norway to Naini Tal. Our
interest is drawn to their southern cousins, the Amizai of the Maghreb. The
world knows them as Berbers, their face to us today is socccer wiz Zindane
of
France and Morocco. That their language is spoken in the Siva Oasis of
lower
Egypt is very telling, to me. Gama, Alva, AL-Buqueir, Rahm and Qureia
are
extremely common names from Algeria to Alexandria: we only have to keep
abreast of Indica to know that Gama, Alva and Moshi (Moses) are very
Hindustani too !
I once informed you that our Lusitanian friends had begun life in
Morocco,
as Lazzitannis, which leaves Mario quite right in his views - we are
eastern
Lizzies ! eric.
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