Lani vs Millie - What's the difference?
lani | millie |
(chiefly, US) (female) borrowed from (etyl).
* 1940 Hearst's International combined with Cosmopolitan, v.109, July-December 1940, page 106
* 2002 , What Happened to Lani Garver , Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN 0152168133, page XI
A diminutive of the female given names Mildred, Millicent, Emily, Amelia and Camilla, also used as a formal given name.
As a proper noun lani
is (chiefly|us) (female) borrowed from (etyl).As a noun millie is
(northern ireland, 19th century, pejorative or affectionate) a mill-worker, usually a young, industrybbc newsline broadcast 27th of may 2010.lani
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Until then he had not thought of following Lani Aldrich to Honolulu. He had been so sure that she would return to him.
- Lani' pronounced his name Lonny, and someone told me it had been spelled that way at one time. - - - '''Lonny''' is a boy's name. Who knows what ' Lani is?
