[Facts] Re: What does the name Ligia mean?
Not only is Poe's Ligeia up Nan's alley -- as out "legal alien in Kintuckie" so aptly noted -- but in addition Ligeia *may* share a common ethymological meaning with Nanaea/Nanaia :)
Ligeia is a rather rare classical Greek name, documented in "A
Lexicon of Greek Personal Names" (Volume II, Ed. by M. J. Osborne and S. B. Byrne, Oxford University Press,1994). The name is most probably related to "ligon" meaning "small, slight". Likewise Nanaia may *possibly* be related to the name Nana which is derived from "nano" (also meaning "small, slight, smurfy"). (Although Nanaia may well be derived from the Goddess Athena (Nanaia < Athenaia "of Athena" < Athena).
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What does the name Ligia mean?  ·  Lig  ·  2/17/2001, 3:17 PM
Re: What does the name Ligia mean?  ·  Ligia  ·  3/2/2004, 2:22 PM
Re: What does the name Ligia mean?  ·  Daividh  ·  2/17/2001, 7:41 PM
Re: What does the name Ligia mean?  ·  PriaposLovs  ·  2/18/2001, 1:30 AM
Re: What does the name Ligia mean?  ·  Nanaea  ·  2/18/2001, 3:34 AM
Re: What does the name Ligia mean?  ·  Rowena  ·  7/23/2004, 9:39 AM
Re: What does the name Ligia mean?  ·  PriaposLovs  ·  2/18/2001, 6:08 AM
Re: What does the name Ligia mean?  ·  Nanaea  ·  2/18/2001, 6:28 AM
Re: What does the name Ligia mean?  ·  PriaposLovs  ·  2/19/2001, 1:35 AM
Editing dilemma  ·  Nanaea  ·  2/19/2001, 3:36 AM
name meanings  ·  Charis  ·  4/13/2001, 2:28 PM
Re: Editing dilemma  ·  PriaposLovs  ·  2/19/2001, 4:11 AM
Re: Editing dilemma  ·  Nanaea  ·  2/19/2001, 4:35 AM
Re: Editing dilemma  ·  PriaposLovs  ·  2/19/2001, 5:08 AM
Re: Editing dilemma  ·  Nanaea  ·  2/19/2001, 5:43 AM
Re: Editing dilemma  ·  Chantelle Croff  ·  3/19/2002, 9:46 PM
Re: Editing dilemma  ·  PriaposLovs  ·  2/19/2001, 6:14 AM
Re: Editing dilemma  ·  ligia muralles  ·  2/15/2002, 10:16 PM
That's odd...  ·  Nanaea  ·  2/19/2001, 8:06 AM
Re: That's odd...  ·  PriaposLovs  ·  2/19/2001, 8:40 AM
Re: That's odd...  ·  LaShell  ·  2/27/2002, 5:23 PM
Re: That's odd...  ·  Nanaea  ·  2/19/2001, 9:29 AM
Re: That's odd...  ·  Phyllis  ·  2/27/2001, 3:20 PM
Re: That's odd...  ·  PriaposLovs  ·  2/28/2001, 1:37 AM
Re: That's odd...  ·  Phyllis  ·  3/1/2001, 1:01 PM
Re: That's odd...  ·  Nanaea  ·  2/27/2001, 3:55 PM
Re: That's odd...  ·  Phyllis  ·  2/28/2001, 11:27 AM