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Name 201020

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Name
Zoodota
Gender
unknown
Structure
compound
Type
monolingual
Genealogy
Greek
Origin
local
Etymology
Meaning: 'life-giver'. Inspiration: The word is attested as an epithet of the cross in an inscriptions on a funerary cross from Tamit (DBMNT 957): σταυρὲ ζωόδοτα, ἀνάπαυσον τὴ(ν) ψ[υχ](ὴν) το(ῦ) δούλ(ου) | [Ἰσ]αὰκ πρε(σβυ)τ(έρου) ἐν κόλπ[οις] Ἀβρὰμ κ(αὶ) Ἰσαὰκ κ(αὶ) Ἰακώβ.
Literature
Łajtar forthcoming (a), p. 193
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common word: adjective
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Name 201021

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Name
Zosima
Gender
unknown
Structure
simple
Type
monolingual
Genealogy
Greek
Origin
local
Etymology
Meaning: 'viable, likely to survive'. Inspiration: possibly one of early Christian saints, e.g. Zosimas, 5th/6th-cent. ascetic from Palestine, or Zosimos, martyr of Carthage.
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proper noun: saint
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Name 201024

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Name
Im---
Gender
unknown
Structure
unknown
Type
unknown
Genealogy
unknown
Origin
unknown
Etymology
Meaning and origin unknown.
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Name 201025

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Name
Irasi
Gender
female
Structure
simple?
Type
monolingual
Genealogy
Nubian
Origin
local
Etymology
Meaning: perhaps from ⲏⲣ- < ⲉⲓⲣ-, 'to be able to' + -ⲥⲓ.
Literature
NOM 4, no. 25a
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Name 201026

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Name
Ire
Gender
female
Structure
simple?
Type
monolingual?
Genealogy
Nubian?
Origin
local?
Etymology
Meaning: perhaps from ⲉⲓⲣ-, 'to be able to'. Otherwise, this may be a variant of Herais (Nam 6891), attested as ⲏⲣⲁⲉⲓ in Sakinya (Ref 701985), or Eirene (Nam 2914).
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Name 201030

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Name
Ishapeti
Gender
unknown
Structure
compound?
Type
unknown
Genealogy
unknown
Origin
unknown
Etymology
Meaning and origin unknown. The element 'peti' occurs in other names (Peti, Petiallam, Petikesari, Espeti). It may be of Nubian origin, deriving from ⲡⲉⲧ(ⲧ)ⲓ-, 'date, date palm'. The element 'isha' is otherwise unidentified, however. This may be a variant of Espeti (Nam 200985).
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Name 201031

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Name
Ikypahe
Gender
 
Structure
 
Type
 
Genealogy
 
Origin
 
Etymology
This is a ghost-name; for a corrected reading, see Ref 704603 and Nam 200913.
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Name 201033

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Name
Tapara
Gender
male
Structure
simple
Type
monolingual
Genealogy
Nubian
Origin
local
Etymology
Meaning: perhaps ⲧⲁⲡⲣ̄-, 'to lose, destroy, escape', or ⲧⲁⲡⲡⲁⲣ-, 'to touch' + -ⲁ (predicative) = 'the one who loosens/touches'.
Literature
For the ghost-variant Taparil, see NOM 5, no. 2.
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common word: participle
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Name 201049

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Name
Theopiste
Gender
female
Structure
compound
Type
monolingual
Genealogy
Greek
Origin
local
Etymology
Meaning: 'faithful to God (f.)'. Inspiration: wife of saint Eustace (2nd cent.), martyred with him and their two sons.
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proper noun: saint
common word: adjective
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Name 201055

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Name
Thimae
Gender
unknown
Structure
unknown
Type
unknown
Genealogy
unknown
Origin
unknown
Etymology
Meaning and origin unknown.
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Name 201057

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Name
Thiminsal
Gender
unknown
Structure
compound
Type
monolingual
Genealogy
Nubian
Origin
local
Etymology
Meaning: perhaps ⲧⲙ̄ⲙ-, 'assembly' + -ⲛ (genitive) + ⲥⲁⲗ-, 'word' = word of assembly'.
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Name 201068

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Name
Iapheth
Gender
male
Structure
simple
Type
monolingual
Genealogy
Semitic: Hebrew
Origin
foreign
Etymology
Meaning: 'enlarged'. Inspiration: one of the three sons of Noah, the ancestor of the peoples of Europe and Anatolia
Literature
 
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proper noun: Biblical: OT
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