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Help[Opinions] Re: Desma, Desmia, Dezima, Desimira
in reply to a message by Manipura
Ooooh, I do not like Decima at all! With a hard 'k' it's pretty harsh and angular sounding, with a soft 'c' it's all decimate and decimal. No thank you! It's also one of these weird, archaic names that it's really hard to imagine a real life modern-day person walking around with.
Dezima isn't great. It feels constructed in order to get the (imho not great) nickname 'Dez'. Like, Dennis "Dez" wanted to name his poor daughter Dez after him, and he decided that Dezzie weren't gonna cut it on the birth certificate so he stuck the girlish -ima on the end and went 'good enough'.
Desimira is the most legitimately modern name-feeling. Still not a fan. But the sorta meaning of 'finding peace' is cute.
Desma sounds like the name of a villain-of-the-week in a kids' fantasy-adventure cartoon. Also not a fan. And as unreliable as websites like The Bump are, IF (and it's a big IF) it is from the Ancient Greek desmos, it seams that doesn't mean 'band/connection' and even less the woo-woo logical leap of 'pledge/bond'. So the meaning is utter woo.
A quick (and yes, this is wiktionary, sorry it's late and I'm lazy) google finds that desmos has associations with fetters/imprisonment as well - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B4%CE%B5%CF%83%CE%BC%CF%8C%CF%82 - and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B4%CE%B5%CF%83%CE%BC%CE%AC#Greek in Modern Greek desma often means imprisonment, chains, shackles so... not really a great association... kinda naming your kid 'shackles'. No mention of promise or pledge and not great vibes all round. Well done again, The Bump! *
* Disclaimer, I do not speak Greek and am too lazy to do a proper research tonight.
Dezima isn't great. It feels constructed in order to get the (imho not great) nickname 'Dez'. Like, Dennis "Dez" wanted to name his poor daughter Dez after him, and he decided that Dezzie weren't gonna cut it on the birth certificate so he stuck the girlish -ima on the end and went 'good enough'.
Desimira is the most legitimately modern name-feeling. Still not a fan. But the sorta meaning of 'finding peace' is cute.
Desma sounds like the name of a villain-of-the-week in a kids' fantasy-adventure cartoon. Also not a fan. And as unreliable as websites like The Bump are, IF (and it's a big IF) it is from the Ancient Greek desmos, it seams that doesn't mean 'band/connection' and even less the woo-woo logical leap of 'pledge/bond'. So the meaning is utter woo.
A quick (and yes, this is wiktionary, sorry it's late and I'm lazy) google finds that desmos has associations with fetters/imprisonment as well - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B4%CE%B5%CF%83%CE%BC%CF%8C%CF%82 - and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B4%CE%B5%CF%83%CE%BC%CE%AC#Greek in Modern Greek desma often means imprisonment, chains, shackles so... not really a great association... kinda naming your kid 'shackles'. No mention of promise or pledge and not great vibes all round. Well done again, The Bump! *
* Disclaimer, I do not speak Greek and am too lazy to do a proper research tonight.
This message was edited 11/12/2024, 2:52 PM
