Huh

[ithildin]

I've been looking up names for some of the secondary characters for my Queen of Swords fic, and came across in entry for 'Amanda':

Gender: Feminine

Usage: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Finnish

Pronounced: ə-MAN-də (English), ah-MAHN-dah (Spanish, Italian) [key]
Created in the 17th century by the playwright Colley Cibber, who based it on Latin amanda meaning "lovable, worthy of love". It came into regular use during the 19th century.

Comments

[juniperphoenix]

Yeah, I ran across that a while ago and promptly decided to ignore it. Clearly Highlander takes place in an alternate universe where the name came into common usage much earlier... right? ;)

Seriously, though, one could do something really interesting with the notion that someone (Rebecca? A priest who discovered a foundling on his doorstep? Someone who spoke Latin, anyway...) gave her the name "Amanda" for its Latin meaning before it came into common usage. Young Amanda was a person who badly needed to be told and shown that she was worthy of love, and her name is a lovely and enduring symbol of that worth.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

That was my thinking.