Alan
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "alan"
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old Breton Alan, name of early Breton 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, Welsh Alawn, Celtic Alun, ‘harmony’. As an early Irish name, perhaps connected with ail (“noble”). Compare French Alain.
Alternative forms[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Alan (plural Alans)
- A male given name from the Celtic languages.
- 1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Reeve's Tale”, in Nevill Coghill, transl., The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977:
- He grabbed at Alan by his Adam's apple,
And Alan grabbed him back in furious grapple
And clenched his fist and bashed him on the nose.
- 1910, P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs, and Other Stories, BiblioBazaar, LLC, published 2008, →ISBN, page 24:
- 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.
- A surname.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
male given name
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Etymology 2[edit]
From Latin Alānī, from Ancient Greek Ἀλανοί (Alanoí), from Proto-Ossetic *Allānʉ.
Noun[edit]
- (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[edit]
Translations[edit]
member of a Sarmatian tribe
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Etymology 3[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Alan (plural Alans)
- A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Elon.
Anagrams[edit]
Czech[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Alan m anim
- a male given name, equivalent to English Alan
Declension[edit]
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from English Alan.
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Alan m
- a male given name from English, equivalent to English Alan
Related terms[edit]
Slovak[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Alan m anim (genitive singular Alana, nominative plural Alanovia, declension pattern of chlap)
- a male given name, equivalent to English Alan
Declension[edit]
Declension of Alan
Further reading[edit]
- “Alan”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Turkish[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Alan
- a male given name
Welsh[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Alan m
- a male given name, feminine equivalent Alana
Mutation[edit]
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | h-prothesis |
Alan | unchanged | unchanged | Halan |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References[edit]
Heini Gruffudd (2010) Enwau Cymraeg i Blant / Welsh Names for Children[1], Y Lolfa, →ISBN, page 12
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