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Help[Opinions] Re: Salome, Sabbath and Odessa /names that feel Jewish but are not used by jews
in reply to a message by EES-rah-el-la (Israella
I love the look of Salome, the audacity, the association with the Herod's stepdaughter who got the head of John the Baptist served to her on a silver platter, the Oscar Wilde play, the idea of a Salome "Sally", the Polish form Salomea (sa-law-MEH-a). Everything about it. EXCEPT the fact that my instinct is to pronounce it as SAL-ə-mee, which is dangerously close to salami.
Odessa reminds me - aside from the city - of names like Odette and Odysseus. But also maybe to the word odious? aw-DES-a.
Sabbath (which I'd pronounce SAB-əth) feels so edgy as a name in a vaguely annoying way. Like Salem. Sabbath is into death metal and skull decorations and their real name is, like, Sam.
Adam "feels" Jewish to me, but seems to be way rarer among Jews than Chava (Eve) - I wonder why!
masculine list: https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/191050/124079
feminine list: https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/191050/124080
Odessa reminds me - aside from the city - of names like Odette and Odysseus. But also maybe to the word odious? aw-DES-a.
Sabbath (which I'd pronounce SAB-əth) feels so edgy as a name in a vaguely annoying way. Like Salem. Sabbath is into death metal and skull decorations and their real name is, like, Sam.
Adam "feels" Jewish to me, but seems to be way rarer among Jews than Chava (Eve) - I wonder why!
masculine list: https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/191050/124079
feminine list: https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/191050/124080
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Generally speaking the name Adam has never been overly popular in Jewish communities and I think that the reason that Adam is not so popular among Jews is because it simply means "human" in hebrew (?) But I am not so sure
It is (again) my speculation
It is (again) my speculation
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