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For example, in French "Jacky" is commonly used as a nickname for Jacques, in Dutch "Jack" is a pet form of Jacob or Jacobus along with the other nicknames "Sjaak", "Sjaakie" and "Jaak". In Swedish, it is "Jacke" for Jacob or Jakob and in German it is "Jackel" or "Jockel" for Jakob .
Jacques Lemée (born 1946), French retired football player and manager; John Jackie Lomax (1944–2013), English singer-songwriter and guitarist; Jackie Mason, American comedian and actor born Yacov Moshe Maza (1928–2021) Jacky Mathijssen (born 1963), Dutch football manager and former player; Jackie Milburn, (1924–1988) English football player
There is also a theory that it is Celtic in origin, meaning "healthy, strong, full of vital energy" (compare the Welsh word iach, "health"), from a putative Ancient British Yakkios. [5] [unreliable source?] Both the name and the word "jack" were long used as a term to refer to any man, especially of the common classes. [6] [7]
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Leman, an archaic word for "sweetheart, paramour," from Medieval British leofman (c.1205), from Old English leof (cognate of Dutch lief, German lieb) "dear" + man "human being, person" was originally applied to either gender, but usually means mistress. [9] The term young man was at some periods used with a similar connotation.
A thesaurus or synonym dictionary lists similar or related words; these are often, but not always, synonyms. [15] The word poecilonym is a rare synonym of the word synonym. It is not entered in most major dictionaries and is a curiosity or piece of trivia for being an autological word because of its meta quality as a synonym of synonym.
Jacqueline is a given name, the French feminine form of Jacques, also commonly used in the English-speaking world. Older forms and variant spellings were sometimes given to men. Older forms and variant spellings were sometimes given to men.