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Alan
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Appendix:Variations of "alan"
English
Pronunciation
en /ˈæl.ən/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Alan.wav Southern England
en ælən 2
Etymology 1
From en obt Alan, name of early en br - saints, of disputed origin and meaning; brought to England by Normans. It may have been the name of a Celtic deity, the brother of Bran, cy Alawn, cy Alun. As an early Irish name, perhaps connected with ga ail noble. Compare fr Alain.
Alternative forms
en Allan Allen Alen
Proper noun
s
en male Celtic languages.
en w:Geoffrey Chaucer w:Nevill Coghill The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English w:Penguin Classics w:Penguin Books 1951 1977 The Reeve's Tale He grabbed at Alan by his Adam's apple,And Alan grabbed him back in furious grappleAnd clenched his fist and bashed him on the nose.
en 1910 w:P. G. Wodehouse The Man Upstairs, and Other Stories 24 BiblioBazaar, LLC 2008 0554330679 I could pose as an artist all right; so I took the studio. Also the name of Alan Beverley. My own is Bill Bates. I had often wondered what it would feel like to be called by some name like Alan Beverley or Cyril Trevelyan.
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Derived terms
en Al Alana,Alanna
Translations
male given name
Basque: eu Alain
Breton: br Alan m
Catalan: ca Alà
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 艾倫 Àilún
Czech: cs Alan m
Danish: da Allan
Dutch: nl Alan, nl Alanus, nl Alain
Faroese: fo Allan m
Finnish: fi Allan
Flemish: nl Alaan, nl Alain
French: fr Alain
Greek: el Αλανός, el Αλάν
Irish: ga Ailín
Italian: it Alano
Kazakh: kk Алан
Latin: la Alanus
Manx: gv Aleyn
Māori: mi Ārana, mi Ārena
Persian: fa آلن âlen
Portuguese: pt Alan m
Russian: ru А́лан m
Scottish Gaelic: gd Ailean
Slovak: sk Alan
Spanish: es Alano m; es Alán m
Swedish: sv Allan
Welsh: cy Alawn, cy Alun
Etymology 2
From en la Alānī, from en grc Ἀλανοί, from en xsc-sar-pro *Āllān.
Noun
+i
s Alani
en historical A member of a group of Sarmatian tribes, nomadic pastoralists of the 1st millennium AD who spoke an Eastern Iranian language derived from Scytho-Sarmatian and which in turn evolved into modern Ossetian.
Related terms
en Alania Alanic Roxolani
Translations
member of a Sarmatian tribe
Armenian: hy ալան
Old Armenian: xcl ալանք p
Catalan: ca alà m, ca alana f
Czech: cs Alan m
Galician: gl alán m, gl alana f
Georgian: ka ალანები
German: plural referring to the people de Alanen m-p
Greek:
Ancient Greek: grc Ἀλανοί p
Latin: plural referring to the people la Alānī m-p
Ossetian: os ала́н
Persian: fa آلان âlân
Portuguese: pt alano m
Russian: ru ала́н m
Spanish: es alano m
Turkish: tr Alan
Etymology 3
Proper noun
s
en male Hebrew Elon.
Anagrams
en aaln Anal Lana Nala anal anal. lana nala
Czech
cs:
Pronunciation
Proper noun
m-an
cs male Alan
Declension
m.an
Portuguese
Etymology
pt :ubor en:Alan + 1
Pronunciation
Álan,Alán Álan
Proper noun
m
pt male English Alan
Related terms
pt Alano
pt alão
Slovak
Pronunciation
sk /ˈaɫan/
Proper noun
m-pr Alana Alanovia chlap
sk male Alan
Declension
m-pr name
Further reading
Tagalog
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
tl :bor en:Alan + 1
Proper noun
+
tl male English < Old Breton
See also
tl Allan
Etymology 2
Proper noun
+
tl
Turkish
Proper noun
tr male
Welsh
+
Alternative forms
cy Alun
cy Alawn
Pronunciation
cy /ˈalan/
Proper noun
m
cy male Alana
Mutation
References
Heini Gruffudd https://www.swansea.ac.uk/graduation/honoraryawards/honoraryawardsarchive/honoraryawards2013/heinigruffudd/ Enwau Cymraeg i Blant / Welsh Names for Children https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Enwau_Cymraeg_i_blant/vuWhRAAACAAJ?hl=en Y Lolfa 2010 12 9781847712196