karen Etymology 1
From (etyl) Karen.
Proper noun
( en proper noun)
. First taken up as a given name in the U.S.A., and popular in the English-speaking world from the 1950s to the 1970s.
* 1878 , Drift-Weed , Houghton, Osgood,1878, page 28 ("Karen"):
- Left you a lover in that far land, / O Karen sad, that you pine so long! / Would I could unravel and understand / That sorrowful, sweet Norwegian song!
* 1918 Cecily Ullman Sidgwick, Karen , W.Collins, 1918, page 12:
- I was not called Karen after Hans Andersen's dancing girl, but after a Danish friend of my mother's who married an Englishman and was my godmother. So much for our family affairs.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .
Proper noun
( en proper noun)
A group of languages of Myanmar and Thailand.
External links
Ethnologue report on the Karen languages
Etymology 3
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sara Proper noun
( en proper noun)
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- Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
*1850 (Dinah Craik), Olive , Chapman and Hall, page 151:
- Olive learnt that her young beauty's name, so far from being anything so fine as Maddalena, was plain Sarah — or Sara , as its owner took care to explain. Olive was rather disappointed - but she thought of Coleridge's ladye love; consoled herself, and tried to console the young lady, with repeating
*::My pensive Sara ! thy soft cheek reclined, &c.
*:At which Miss Sara Derwent laughed, and asked who wrote that very pretty poetry?
* 2008 , The Northern Clemency , Harpercollins, ISBN 9780007174799, page 175
- 'I wish I was called Sara ,' she said out loud.
- 'Sarah?' her mother said. 'Why the heck is being called Sarah better than being called Tracy?'
- 'Not Sarah, Sara ,' Tracy said. 'There's no h , you say Saaara.'
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