Alan

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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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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.

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Proper noun

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Alan (plural Alans)

  1. A male given name from the Celtic languages.
  2. A surname.
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Etymology 2

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From Latin Alānī, from Ancient Greek Ἀλανοί (Alanoí), from Proto-Ossetic *Allānʉ.

Noun

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Alan (plural Alans or Alani)

  1. (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.
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Etymology 3

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Proper noun

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Alan (plural Alans)

  1. A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Elon.

Anagrams

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Czech

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Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Alan m anim

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Alan

Declension

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English Alan.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Alan m

  1. a male given name from English, equivalent to English Alan
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Slovak

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Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Alan m anim (genitive singular Alana, nominative plural Alanovia, declension pattern of chlap)

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Alan

Declension

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Further reading

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  • 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

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Proper noun

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Alan

  1. a male given name

Welsh

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Alan m

  1. a male given name, feminine equivalent Alana

Mutation

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Welsh mutation
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

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Heini Gruffudd (2010) Enwau Cymraeg i Blant / Welsh Names for Children[1], Y Lolfa, →ISBN, page 12