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Gretta
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gretta
English
Etymology
From en Margaret. A rare variant of en Greta.
Proper noun
en female Ancient Greek.
222 'Gretta tells me you're not going to take a cab back to Monkstown to-night, Gabriel,' said Aunt Kate.'No,' said Gabriel, turning to his wife, 'we had quite enough of that last year, hadn't we? Don't you remember, Aunt Kate, what a cold Gretta got out of it? Cab windows rattling all the way, and the east wind blowing in after we passed Merrion. Very jolly it was. Gretta caught a dreadful cold.'
en 2013 w:Maggie O'Farrell Instructions for a Heatwave Tinder Press 9780755358786 79 Mrs Saunders referred to Aoife throughout this talk as 'Eva' and when Gretta corrected her, Mrs Saunders replied that didn't Gretta think it would be better 'for everyone' to use what she termed 'the proper spelling' of the name? If only to give Eva a better chance of learning to write it?
Anagrams
en aegrtt gatter target