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Mommyagain6124--question for you
| Fri, 05-04-2007 - 9:31pm |
Kelli, I have been thinking about something lately and am finally going to ask. I am currently reading "Clan of the Cave Bear"--have you read it?? The reason I ask is that the little girl in the book is called Ayla. I automatically thought of your Aila (I can't remember if thats how you spell it or not) and tried to remember where you came up with that nn for Abigail. I do remember your posts about it when you were pregnant, but I can't remember where you got it from. I am a fan of girl names that end in an 'a' so I just love the sound of Aila. I had just never heard of it besides your daughter and now in this book.
Just curious.....
Theresa

No! I haven't read it, but I just stumbled across something about it the other day. Guess I'll have to find it for her. ;)
It's actually kind of odd how I thought to use Aila as a nn for Abigail. If you remember, the popularity was a concern (I know you know where I'm coming from LOL), so I did NOT want yet another Abby, though I love the full name. Aila was another name I just loved -- we'd even had it on our longer "short" list as a fn -- and one night I was lying there sleepless thinking, as pregnant women tend to do , when it suddenly occurred to me that -ail was the literal ending of Abigail. Add a feminine, diminutive "a" and you've got Aila. So why not use it as an alternate nn, avoid the whole Abby craze, give her a way to differentiate herself if she wants AND get to use another name I love at the same time?! Dh agreed (he even thought it was funny I'd ask if he thought that was acceptable LOL), so it was win-win. ;)
It was also a plus -- though a purely ironic one -- that Aila:
1) can be taken as a pet form of Aileen, and therefore ultimately traced back to Aveline (the other name we'd been considering, so in a roundabout way you could say we used both ), and ...
2) can also be a stand-alone Scottish name meaning basically "from the strong place" (since we were surprised to find she was conceived less than two weeks after a miscarriage ... and she "stuck"!).
Since you love the sound of it, you might also be interested to know that the Ayla spelling is also a form of a Hebrew name (Elah ... which struck me as funny since it's Leah scrambled ) and means oak tree. So you've got the Biblical (like Aaron and Joshua)
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