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[Opinions] Re: Birth announcement... Our daughter
by astronomicon
2/22/2014, 5:02 AM
in reply to a message by Winter
Olivia is pretty, and it goes quite well with your sibset too! I must admit, I'm pretty curious about the origins of the name Salka. It's really interesting.
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- Winter   +1
2/22/2014, 5:21 AM
Salka is a name we discovered through the Icelandic band Sigur Ros. They have a really beautiful song called Salka, which is also an Icelandic girls name. It's a Nordic and Slavic pet name of Sara/Sarah. A few years later someone told me it's also a Hebrew pet form of Salomé.
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- Caprice
2/22/2014, 12:16 PM
Icelandic Nobel Prize author Halldór Laxness wrote a novel called Salka Valka (I haven't read it).
This page says it's a form of Sara:
http://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Main_PageIt's a lovely name. And I like that it rhymes with the Swedish word svalka, which means "coolness" as in "the coolness of the summer evening"...

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