Alan
See also: Appendix:Variations of "alan"
English
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈæl.ən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ælən
Etymology 1
editFrom 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
editProper noun
editAlan (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
editTranslations
editmale given name
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Etymology 2
editFrom 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
editTranslations
editmember of a Sarmatian tribe
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Etymology 3
editProper noun
editAlan (plural Alans)
- A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Elon.
Anagrams
editCzech
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editAlan m anim
- a male given name, equivalent to English Alan
Declension
editPortuguese
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English Alan.
Pronunciation
edit
Proper noun
editAlan m
- a male given name from English, equivalent to English Alan
Related terms
editSlovak
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editAlan m anim (genitive singular Alana, nominative plural Alanovia, declension pattern of chlap)
- a male given name, equivalent to English Alan
Declension
editDeclension 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
editProper noun
editAlan
- a male given name
Welsh
editAlternative forms
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editAlan m
- a male given name, feminine equivalent Alana
Mutation
editWelsh 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
editHeini Gruffudd (2010) Enwau Cymraeg i Blant / Welsh Names for Children[1], Y Lolfa, →ISBN, page 12
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