What is Maly?
“Josh, what is “maly” of maly.janicek.com?”
I have fairly self-explanatory subdomains under Janicek.com such as cabo.janicek.com, cooking.janicek.com and photos.janicek.com.
I wanted a new, secret subdomain to blog our pregnancy until we tell the world. I thought about baby.janicek.com and little.janicek.com. I decided to consult Google to find a word for “small” or “little” in Czech. I came across the word “maly” in the Little Czech Primer.
I don’t know how to pronounce “maly” in Czech. I’m fairly certain it would be pronounced something like, “paperweight” or “jockstrap” in the motherland. I pronounce it “Maylee”. That doesn’t mean we’re naming our child “Maly”. I do think that would be a cute name for a girl. Not so much for a boy though. Maybe “Jockstrap”.
That being said, the name Janicek is, in fact, Czech. My great grandmother was from what was previously known as Czechoslovakia. Unfortunately I don’t know much about my partial heritage other than she shares the same last name and kolaches taste pretty damn good.
April 16th, 2006 at 10:22 pm
[…] As I understand it, Josh wanted one name, and Elise wanted another… so, they compromised and went back to the tried and true: Maly (pronounced “Maylee”). Maly is the name Josh used to announce that they were pregnant, because it means “small” in Czech. […]
July 24th, 2006 at 1:21 pm
Dear parents, you probably have had your baby by now, but I just came across your blog entry when I typed in Pregnant. Well, this is a good omen that your wife is named Elise because one of my favorite foreign films is the Czech film “Zelary” and lo and behold the heroine’s name is “Eliska” that is until she had to change it to Hana to escape the Nazis.
~Dorothy