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

[vida morkunas]

some do...  some of my friends call me Davida, but most call me Vida.

cheers !

Vida.
vidamorkunas at telus.net



-----Original Message-----
From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf
Of Gerald Cohen
Sent: February 10, 2003 5:45 PM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: name "Vida"; Why was the "Da-" lost?


>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