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Oisín (pronounced [əˈʃiːnʲ, ˈɔʃiːnʲ], approximately USH-een) is an Irish male given name; meaning "fawn" or "little deer", derived from the Irish word os ("deer") + -ín (diminutive suffix). It is sometimes anglicized as Osheen (/ ɒ ˈ ʃ iː n / OSH-een) or spelt without the acute accent (fada), as Oisin.
This list of Irish-language given names shows Irish language given names, their anglicisations and/or English language equivalents.. Not all Irish given names have English equivalents, though most names have an anglicised form.
Ossian playing his harp, by François Pascal Simon Gérard, 1801 Oisín and Niamh on their way to Tír na nÓg, illustration by Albert Herter, 1899. Oisín (Irish pronunciation: [ˈɔʃiːnʲ, ɔˈʃiːnʲ]), Osian, Ossian (/ ˈ ɒ ʃ ən / OSH-ən), or anglicized as Osheen (/ oʊ ˈ ʃ iː n / UH-sheen) was regarded in legend as the greatest poet of Ireland, a warrior of the Fianna in the ...
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs , which are written differently but pronounced the same).
The Irish patronymic is in reference to the given name 'damán allaid' meaning "fawn", [1] or "poet." A separate and unrelated root for Devin is from a nickname, based on Old French devin, "divine" (Latin dīvīnus). As a masculine given name, Devin became somewhat popular in the United States during the 1980s to 2000s, peaking at rank 59 in 1997.
Mr Tumnus (by Maurice Harron (2016), C. S. Lewis Square, Belfast).. Mr. Tumnus is a faun in The Chronicles of Narnia books written by C. S. Lewis, primarily in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe but also briefly in The Horse and His Boy and in The Last Battle.
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