Lena vs Helen - What's the difference?
lena | helen | Related terms |
, from the Scandinavian, German and Russian pet form of Helena, Magdalena and Yelena (also spelled Elena).
Lena River, flowing 2,734 miles from the Baikal Mountains of Siberia to the Arctic Ocean.
(Greek mythology) the daughter of Zeus and Leda, considered to be the most beautiful woman in the world; her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War.
* 1602 William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida , Act I, Scene I
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* 1928 , The Mystery of the Blue Train
* 1993 , The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien , ISBN 0-14-023028-9, page 6:
* 2003 , A Share in Death'', HarperCollins, ISBN 0060534389, page 189
Helen is a related term of lena.
As proper nouns the difference between lena and helen
is that lena is {{given name|female|from=Ancient Greek}}, from the Scandinavian, German and Russian pet form of Helena, Magdalena and Yelena (also spelled Elena) while Helen is the daughter of Zeus and Leda, considered to be the most beautiful woman in the world; her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War.lena
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* English female given names from Hebrew ----helen
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(s)- Fools on both sides! Helen must needs be fair,
- When with your blood you daily paint her thus.
- "Is her name Ellen or Helen , Miss Viner? I thought - "
- Miss Viner closed her eyes.
- "I can sound my h's, dear, as well as anyone, but Helen is not a suitable name for a servant. I don't know what the mothers in the lower classes are coming to nowadays."
- - - - in 1910 she brought Helen' into the world, the little female, or "''mujercita''", as her mother called all the babies, naming her after the glittery label on a facial ointment, The ' Helen of Troy Beauty Pomade, said to eradicate wrinkles, to soften and add a youthful glow to the user's skin - a fortuitous choice because, of all the sisters, she would be the most beautiful and, never growing old, would always possess the face of a winsome adolescent beauty.
- Gemma followed her, thinking that Helen seemed rather an old-fashioned and elegant name for this rumpled young mother.