Kouvr Origin

General Name Discussion
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Kouvr is not my style, but it’s bugging me that I can’t figure out it’s origin!

Google search says it’s Hawaiian, probably because the TikToker named Kouvr is Hawaiian, but it can’t be. I lived in Hawai’i for a while and I know to be true that there is no V or R in the Hawaiian alphabet, and never 2 consonants next to eachother. The name has had a tiny surge since the TikTok girl got famous and I’ve seen it a couple of times outside of her.

Could it be Greek? Totally made up? Does anyone know?

This is what keeps me up at night, lol.

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I would doubt it’s Greek but don’t know much beyond that…

The final “vr” is an odd end sound and not common in too many languages I don’t think. Perhaps Semitic?

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Not sure but it could be a variant of Kövér, a Hungarian name, or [name_m]German[/name_m] Küver

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Semitic might be the right track. It also seems like it could definitely be a yoonique spelling of Kover.

The word kouver is Mauritian Creole for cloudy I discovered in my deep google search? Maybe that’s it and they dropped the E?

Kouvr typed into google translate detects Greek but doesn’t translate to anything, so that’s where I got Greek before.

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Yeah, the ‘vr’ without an intervening vowel would be quite unexpected in an Indo-European language, I would think. A cursory glance of the modern Greek phonetic alphabet reveals that the “v” sound is present but it was not in Ancient Greek.

A creole could be possible although why the “e” would be dropped is beyond me (other than, as you alluded, to increase its yoonique-ness).

If not, Semitic would be my first guess although I wouldn’t have a clue how to find out whether I was right or not…

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I can’t tell you the origin sadly, but to clear things up a little, it isn’t Greek! While the “vr” sound isn’t uncommon in Greek, Greek names can’t end in -r.

If you only know of one person with the name, it’s likely made up because the parents liked the sound :woman_shrugging:

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That’s from the [name_u]French[/name_u] “Couvert” (covered, meaning in a covered sky) and it wouldn’t be used as a name, not poetic at all just really weather talk :sweat_smile: but the ‘e’ is pronounced quite strongly, so dropping it would be weird

Germanic languages might have a shorter “e” the high is why I thought it could have been dropped