Thursday, June 24, 2004

self esteem goes down the toilet

A search for a friend's name's meaning and origin gone astray led me to some very colorful meanings of my own name. Certain unnamed people *cough*abid*cough* found this highly amusing so I though I'd share.

Firstly, my name has Russian origins, spelling varying from Misha to Mischa. The good news is that the meaning of Misha/Mishca in Russian is "Like God". How's that for a power trip? The bad news is that its mainly a male name, and is used as a cutesy nickname for Russian men named Michael.

Then I found that my name has some strange roots in Native American history. To quote a lady on soem name messageboard:

Posted by: Priapos Lovs (212.251.72.135)
Date and time: January 05, 2001 at 2:03:38 AM

There are sketchy references of Misha as a Native American name throughout the Web. As far as I could find, a "Misha-nnock" (tree scratcher) is a squirrel in one dialect. I found an other reference to "Misha Sapokni", meaning "beyond age". A transcendental squirrel perhaps? Who knows.


Now for the Arabic/Urdu origins that my parents actually intended (I hope). According to one website, Misha means "beautiful, pretty". Talk about false advertising.

Misha at Thursday, June 24, 2004

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