"Nico Mody-Nikoloff" nico@farsight.co.nz wrote:
Meg wrote:
Looking at my latest Baby Name book:
Vila: (Czech) wilful. A form of William.
On the other hand, most *short* names have probably turned up somewhere sometime. Even if the writer invents them, chances are that someone else came up with them before them. Especially if they're variants of a common current name. Soolin I haven't found anywhere though.
Czech eh? I've often wondered if the lower grades were moved around a lot to meet labour demands, and that's why Vila has a foreign (i.e. not obviously English) name. Another explanation would be the deliberate mixing of ethnic groups to stamp out the vestiges of nationalism to form a more homogenous Federation, though there's not much evidence for that - so few blacks or Asians.
I've often thought that Soolin was her family name, as she'd want to keep that going.
Nico
'Vila Restal' sounds almost 'Baltic'
Jacqui