name "Vida"; Why was the "Da-" lost?

Gerald Cohen gcohen at UMR.EDU
Tue Feb 11 01:45:26 UTC 2003


>At 5:45 PM -0800 2/9/03, vida morkunas wrote:
>Vida (vee-da) is the feminine of David - a common name for Lithuanian girls.
>
>I don't look *at all* like Vida Blue - my ancestry is
>Scandinavian/Baltic/Jewish...
>

What happened to the "Da-" of "Davida"? Do any Lithuanian women have
this longer form?

Gerald Cohen



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