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  2. Vella (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Vella is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: ... People with first name. Vella Pillay (1923–2004), South African economist and political activist

  3. Eastern Slavic naming customs - Wikipedia

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    The auxiliary stem may be identical to the word stem of the full name (the full name Жанна Zhanna can have the suffixes added directly to the stem Жанн- Zhann-like Жанночка Zhannochka), and most names have the auxiliary stem derived unproductively (the Russian name Михаил Mikhail has the auxiliary stem Миш- Mish ...

  4. Naming ceremony - Wikipedia

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    The new name was selected by the husband to complement his own name. For example, a groom named Vishnu would change his bride's name to Lakshmi, the consort of Vishnu, Ramachandra would change his bride's name to Sita, and so on. Usually the husband writes the new name in a plate filled with dry uncooked rice grains.

  5. Naming customs of the Dagomba people - Wikipedia

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    The naming is done either in the indigenous traditional way, known as zugupinbu (meaning shaving of head) where a talisman or soothsayer is consulted to give a name to the new born baby or in the Islamic way, known as Suuna (Hausa word meaning name). In the traditional ceremony, the baby's hair is shaved (zugupinbu) and a name given by a ...

  6. Name change - Wikipedia

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    Name change is the legal act by a person of adopting a new name different from their current name. The procedures and ease of a name change vary between jurisdictions. In general, common law jurisdictions have looser procedures for a name change while civil law jurisdictions are more restrictive. While some civil law jurisdictions have loosened ...

  7. Help:A quick guide to templates - Wikipedia

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    A template is a Wikipedia page created to be included in other pages. It usually contains repetitive material that may need to show up on multiple articles or pages, often with customizable input. Templates sometimes use MediaWiki parser functions, nicknamed "magic words", a simple scripting language. Template pages are found in the template ...

  8. The Four Ceremonial Occasions - Wikipedia

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    The word Gwanhonsangje (冠婚喪祭) was first used in the classic book Ye-gi (예기禮記), and has since been used in many other works describing various rites. Similar weddings and other practices have been observed since the period of the Three Kingdoms, [1] [2] although it is unclear whether the concept of a Confucian wedding ceremony was firmly established at that time.

  9. Wikipedia:Templates - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia:Citation templates for templates used to format article references and citations; Wikipedia:Requested templates, to request creation of a template. Category:Wikipedia templates; Special:ExpandTemplates, expands all templates recursively; Use this form to search in the Template: or Template_talk: namespaces. See Help:Searching for more ...