gamarjoba! today is independence day in georgia. may 26 is celebrated as the country's independence from russian empire.but why georgia? georgian language gave me the idea for this blog's name. the georgian suffix -shvili literally means "child", mostly coming from eastern georgia. as you may have known, my name was derived from the combination of my parents' name judith and roberto. hence, jubert. then, put some jologs spice on it = dyoob, add shvili... and you have dyoobshvili = child of judith and roberto! wahahaha!
i wonder why pinoys didn't get to have this formula for naming conventions... probably because of matri-patriarchal society we have here and the archipelagic geography.
the blog's title is also georgian. "tsers. stseria." means "he writes. it is written." gamarjoba!
paki hanap na rin sa georgia ang pangalan kong josephine...bakit nga ba ako josephine? nakalagay sa birth cert ko, ang midwife na nagpaanak kay mama, josephine. so sabi ko, ah malamang bilang pasasalamat nila sa taong yun. e pero lately ang sabi ni Ate, meron daw si Papa na kulasisi na josephine ang pangalan. ano ba yun, kakainis pala ang pangalan k, kung totoo man.
ReplyDelete'te joy, josephine ay female form ng joseph, which means daw "the Lord increases" in hebrew. wala sa georgian ang josephine eh. kakaiba ang mga names nila or russian na in form.
ReplyDeleteheheheh! di ko alam ang istorya sa kulasisi ni papa na josephine ang name! hehehe!