Essays on names

Written for this library, and linked all the way through to the entries themselves.

• Persian Girl Names That Came From Poetry
  Shirin, Tehmina and the heroines of the Shahnameh: Persian girl names that began as literary characters, with meanings and full entries.
• Urdu Girl Names, Shown in Their Own Script
  Urdu girl names with the Urdu script alongside the meaning — a confluence of Arabic religious vocabulary and Persian poetic imagery.
• One-Syllable Girl Names: The Complete Short List
  Strong, minimal, hard to shorten: every one-syllable girl name in this library, from every tradition, with meanings.
• Russian Girl Names and the Art of the Diminutive
  Ekaterina becomes Katya, Katyusha, Katenka — Russian girl names in this library, and how the diminutive system actually works.
• Japanese Girl Names: Why the Kanji Is Half the Name
  The same sound, different characters, different name — Japanese girl names in this library with script and meaning.
• Irish Girl Names and How to Actually Say Them
  Aoife, Niamh, Sadhbh: Irish girl names with pronunciation, the logic behind the spelling, and full entries for each.
• Why Arabic Girl Names Always Mean Something
  Root-and-pattern morphology makes Arabic names transparent to their speakers — the Arabic girl names in this library, with meanings.
• Girl Names Shown in Their Original Script
  Devanagari, Urdu, Arabic, kanji, Cyrillic — why this library records the native script, with highlights from each tradition.