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Name for female Greater Spotted Eagle
Posted: April 29th, 2018, 10:46 am
by juta
Please vote for the name to female Greater Spotted Eagle on Tõnn´s nest!
Our members have chosen some names from this list
http://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/view ... 66#p578666
Tea
Terje
Tanja
Tina(in Estonian it means also "tin", maybe better not)
Tiina (we had black stork Tiina already)
Tiiu
Tiia
Truuta
Voting is starting now and will end on Thursday(3th May)
Re: Name for female Greater Spotted Eagle
Posted: April 29th, 2018, 10:47 am
by juta
I vote for
TIIU
Re: Name for female Greater Spotted Eagle
Posted: April 29th, 2018, 11:57 am
by Hellem
I vote for Terje
Re: Name for female Greater Spotted Eagle
Posted: April 29th, 2018, 12:08 pm
by sova
Tiia
Re: Name for female Greater Spotted Eagle
Posted: April 29th, 2018, 1:24 pm
by Biker
Terje
Re: Name for female Greater Spotted Eagle
Posted: April 29th, 2018, 2:21 pm
by Kuutar
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Terje
Re: Name for female Greater Spotted Eagle
Posted: April 29th, 2018, 10:04 pm
by Felis silvestris
My favourite is Tiiu
Re: Name for female Greater Spotted Eagle
Posted: April 29th, 2018, 10:13 pm
by Summi
I'd vote for TIIU
Re: Name for female Greater Spotted Eagle
Posted: April 30th, 2018, 12:48 pm
by sigge
Tiiu sounds nice for me.
Re: Name for female Greater Spotted Eagle
Posted: May 1st, 2018, 11:28 am
by Askja
Terje sounds nice to me (even though the world outside Estonia might consider it a male name).
Re: Name for female Greater Spotted Eagle
Posted: May 1st, 2018, 2:18 pm
by Rita
I vote for Terje.
Re: Name for female Greater Spotted Eagle
Posted: May 1st, 2018, 3:03 pm
by Hagnat
Askja wrote: ↑May 1st, 2018, 11:28 am
Terje sounds nice to me (even though the world outside Estonia might consider it a male name).
Terje sounds very masculine to my ears.
Re: Name for female Greater Spotted Eagle
Posted: May 1st, 2018, 5:13 pm
by juta
Re: Name for female Greater Spotted Eagle
Posted: May 1st, 2018, 6:27 pm
by Hagnat
Terje
Norwegian name. Flatter form of Torgeir, a two-stemmed name from the gods name Thor and -geir, -ger 'spear' (see -ger-). It was mainly used as a first name under the influence of Ibsen's narrative poem 'Terje Vigen' (1860).
https://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nvb/verklaring/naam/Terje
Thor was no female.
Re: Name for female Greater Spotted Eagle
Posted: May 1st, 2018, 6:47 pm
by juta
Hagnat, the same is in that link I gave
but also:
Estonian
Etymology
From Estonian tera "grain", or from Terhenetär in the Kalevala, Finnish terhen "mist".
Proper noun
Terje
A female given name.
Re: Name for female Greater Spotted Eagle
Posted: May 1st, 2018, 8:02 pm
by Lussi05
I will vote for
TIIU.
(as said here already, in Norway Terje is a male given name 
)
Re: Name for female Greater Spotted Eagle
Posted: May 2nd, 2018, 8:31 pm
by Biker
we want to give estonian names. the question, whether is Terje female /male, wouldn't have been raised in a purely estonian forum.
let' s trust an estonian member who made this suggestion.
besides, first names with ambiguous gender are usual all over the world.
is it an option to ask exceptionally Urmas to give a name to Tõnn's wife? (because of his special connection).
Re: Name for female Greater Spotted Eagle
Posted: May 3rd, 2018, 8:24 am
by sikorka
Tiiu would be a nice name.
Re: Name for female Greater Spotted Eagle
Posted: May 3rd, 2018, 9:23 am
by Hagnat
Biker wrote: ↑May 2nd, 2018, 8:31 pm
we want to give estonian names. the question, whether is Terje female /male, wouldn't have been raised in a purely estonian forum.
let' s trust an estonian member who made this suggestion.
besides, first names with ambiguous gender are usual all over the world.
is it an option to ask exceptionally Urmas to give a name to Tõnn's wife? (because of his special connection).
Names for unmarked birds can only be for forum use. In this case only in combination with marked male Tõnn we can tell this is a female. Outside this forum a name for this female will never be used again. Outside a nest nobody will regognise her, not even as female.
Since this is an international (English language) forum it is important that you choose a name that can be perceived as female internationally. Otherwise readers have to translate a name every time back to a gender to understand who posters are talking about.
I can't imaging any interest by Urmas to name an unmarked bird.
And Urmas wrote about naming a marked bird: "
The eaglet was named Tõnn. If we had known how troublesome the name was to use for non-Estonians we would evidently have chosen another name. But when he had got this name we must live with it".
http://www.looduskalender.ee/n/en/node/2350
Re: Name for female Greater Spotted Eagle
Posted: May 3rd, 2018, 10:20 am
by Biker
Biker wrote: ↑May 2nd, 2018, 8:31 pm
we want to give estonian names. the question, whether is Terje female /male, wouldn't have been raised in a purely estonian forum.
let' s trust an estonian member who made this suggestion.
besides, first names with ambiguous gender are usual all over the world.
is it an option to ask exceptionally Urmas to give a name to Tõnn's wife? (because of his special connection).
Hagnat wrote: ↑May 3rd, 2018, 9:23 am
Names for unmarked birds can only be for forum use. In this case only in combination with marked male Tõnn we can tell this is a female. Outside this forum a name for this female will never be used again. Outside a nest nobody will regognise her, not even as female.
Since this is an international (English language) forum it is important that you choose a name that can be perceived as female internationally. Otherwise readers have to translate a name every time back to a gender to understand who posters are talking about.
I can't imaging any interest by Urmas to name an unmarked bird.
And Urmas wrote about naming a marked bird: "
The eaglet was named Tõnn. If we had known how troublesome the name was to use for non-Estonians we would evidently have chosen another name. But when he had got this name we must live with it".
http://www.looduskalender.ee/n/en/node/2350
All this is known to me.
My thought was: by way of exception.
Urmas is a member of this forum and could have interest to use a name here for unmarked birds.
I also use the names only here and nevertheless i take part in the election.