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Is Liv short for Olivia?


I've never seen that mentioned, but I've also never known anyone who was "Liv" without being "Olivia" first. I mean, I know "Mandy"s that aren't "Amanda"s but that's a more common name. I just ask because she's the only other "Liv" I've heard of besides myself, and my name is really Olivia.

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According to IMDb, Tyler's parents named her after Liv Ullmann - a very famous actress several decades ago and often appeared in Ingmar Bergman's films:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0880521/

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Liv is a Norwegian mostly female given name derived from the Old Norse "hlíf", which means "shelter" or "protection". In modern Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish it is also homophonous with the word "liv" meaning "life."

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https://translate.google.com/?tw-ob#auto/en/hl%C3%ADf says it's Icelandic, for: "cover" & as you -prolly- know, "hilfe" is "help" in German, btw.

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Who cares? Womb-men's names are totally retarded anyway. Slight changes are supposed to be pronounced completely differently such as Diana and Deanna, Lisa or Lie-za, etc., any minor change they come up with is made a reason to claim uniqueness. Often men and womb-men are called exactly the same name. Then they have to spell it differently to let you know the gender, such as Billy and Billie or Lindsey and Lindsay, etc. They also have male and female versions of the same name such as Patrick and Patricia which are then both shortened to Pat. It's all very ridiculous and done with little rhyme or reason.

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I am sorry you have issues. It must be hard.

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