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[Facts] Unusual female names in my family - Leota and Huldah
Could someone come up with some background for two female names in my family I have never heard or found elsewhere - Leota and Huldah.Thanks,Kristen Steiner
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As far as Leota is concernes, I assume that it is ultimately derived from the name "Leon" (Lion)or "Leontis" ("Lioness").Hate to be the bearer of excremental etymologies, but Huldah means *Weasel* in Hebrew. The original Huldah was a Biblical character who prophesized that judgment would come on Judah and Jerusalem following King Josiah's death. The name is probably completely unrelated to the German Hilda ("battle"). The latter Frau is notorious for catering to whims of submissive men.
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As I think about it more, "buddy love" as a concept was also Greek, right?
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Yes, in addition to democracy. Thanks to us generations of
AngloSaxon politicians to wear-garter belts.
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Didn't they call your character "Buddy Love" in the Eddie Murphy
movie(s)?
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