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[Facts] Re: Weird Polish Names
Shaymin,My first language is Polish and I can't make sense of this one. I asked my mom and she can't place it but said it sounds like something from a story or legend and could even be transliterated from a language with a different alphabet.I was getting ready to hit post when I found this Polish wiki entry for Wizenna/Wisenna:http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/WizennaIt appears that a woman named Wizenna/Wisenna was the first abbess of a Benedictine convent in Staniątki founded by her parents. During the Tatar/Tartar raids she saved the community by taking a picture of the virgin Mary in procession around it(or so the legend says).
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How is Wisenna / Wizenna pronounced?

This message was edited 7/17/2009, 6:17 PM

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Wisenna is vee-SEHN-nah
Wizenna is vee-ZEHN-nahBoth Ns are pronounced.
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Thanks so much. I figured that it might have been a derivative of the word wiosenna. Do you have any idea where Cypinia comes from?
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I was thinking it might come from wiosenna too.I don't know about Cypinia. I'm going to keep looking for info on it though!
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