Her name is pronounced [miə̯.ɾi.ja] (me-area), with an ancient form Мирѣя [mi.ɾæː.ja] (meer-aya). It's a portmanteau of two words: the first is Balto-Slavic миръ (mir(u): peace, world), and the modern Latin spelling takes the diphthong from the Latvian descendant miers (peace). The second word is Ukrainian мрія (mriya: dream, aspire); the ancient Cyrillic spelling takes the penultimate vowel from its Proto-Slavic verbal ancestor *mьrěti.