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Owen is usually an anglicised variant of the Welsh personal name Owain. Originally a patronymic , Owen became a fixed surname in Wales beginning with the reign of Henry VIII . [ 1 ] Etymologists consider it to originate from Eugene , meaning 'noble-born'. [ 2 ]
Owens is a surname representing two separate Celtic ethnicities: the Welsh from ab Owain meaning "son of Owen" (Owen meaning 'noble') with English patronymic-s, and the Irish by the Gaelic surname Mac Eoghain. [1] This is a list of notable people born with the last name Owens and people who married into the Owens family.
Gareth Owens. Gareth Alun Owens (born 1964) is a British-Greek academic, currently serving as Associate Director and «Erasmus/Socrates» Manager/Tutor of the International Relations Office of the Hellenic Mediterranean University (formerly Technological Educational Institute of Crete) and as Associate Professor of Hellenic Culture -- History, Language and Civilization.
Bowen is a Celtic surname representing two separate Celtic ethnicities, the Welsh ab Owain meaning "son of Owen" (Owen meaning 'noble') and the Irish Ó Buadhacháin meaning "descendant of Bohan" (Bohan meaning 'victorious'). [1] [2] The Bowen lineage can be traced back to Llwyngwair in the 11th century, near Nevern in Pembrokeshire. [3]
Greek culture also employed a number of ways of abbreviating even proper names, though none in quite the same form as the nomina sacra. Inspiration for the contracted forms (using the first and last letter) has also been seen in Revelation , where Jesus speaks of himself as "the beginning and the end" and "the first and the last" as well " the ...
God entered English when the language still had a system of grammatical gender.The word and its cognates were initially neutral but underwent transition when their speakers converted to Christianity, "as a means of distinguishing the personal God of the Christians from the impersonal divine powers acknowledged by pagans."
Owens v Owens, 2018 divorce case in the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom; Victoria University of Manchester, once known as Owens College (an unofficial name sometimes used by staff and students at UMIST) Owens Corning, an American glass company
The Greek Dark Ages (c. 1100 – c. 800 BC) refers to the period of Greek history from the presumed Dorian invasion and end of the Mycenaean civilization in the 11th century BC to the rise of the first Greek city-states in the 9th century BC and the epics of Homer and earliest writings in the Greek alphabet in the 8th century BC.