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  2. Loiner - Wikipedia

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    The term Leeds Loiner was included by Joseph Wright, a native of nearby Windhill and Wrose, in the English Dialect Dictionary. The definition was "An inhabitant of Leeds". The entry suggests that the origin is linked to Marsh Lane in Leeds. [4]

  3. Tyrone (name) - Wikipedia

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    Tyrone is a male given name of Irish origin. The name originates from the toponym County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, which in turn derives from the Irish language Tír Eoghain ("land of Eoghan"). [1] [2] Tír Eoghain was the name of a Gaelic kingdom of Medieval Ireland. Eoghan is variant of Eógan and Owen, or the Scottish Ewan. [3]

  4. Anglicisation of names - Wikipedia

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    When Lushootseed names were integrated into English, they were often recorded and pronounced very differently. An example of this is Chief Seattle. The name Seattle is an anglicisation of the modern Duwamish conventional spelling Si'ahl, equivalent to the modern Lushootseed spelling siʔaɫ Salishan pronunciation: [ˈsiʔaːɬ].

  5. List of words derived from toponyms - Wikipedia

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    Bedlam — meaning pandemonium, after popular name/pronunciation of St Mary of Bethlehem, London's first psychiatric hospital ; Bedlington Terrier, a breed of dog, after Bedlington, UK; bezant — former gold coin, and current heraldic charge, after Byzantium (now Istanbul), where the coins were made

  6. Lin (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Lin (; Chinese: 林; pinyin: Lín) is the Mandarin romanization of the Chinese surname written 林, which has many variations depending on the language and is also used in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Korea (as Im), Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia.

  7. List of English words of French origin - Wikipedia

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    Note that the word in French has retained the general meaning: e.g. château in French means "castle" and chef means "chief". In fact, loanwords from French generally have a more restricted or specialised meaning than in the original language, e.g. legume (in Fr. légume means "vegetable"), gateau (in Fr. gâteau means "cake").

  8. Line (given name) - Wikipedia

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    Line is a female given name, most common in the Nordic countries Denmark and Norway. It may be a short form of names which end in -line, like Caroline. It may be a short form of names which end in -line, like Caroline.

  9. Winder (surname) - Wikipedia

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    In southern England, the pronunciation is with a short "i" (wɪndər), and a version of the name first appears in Hastings in the Hundred Rolls for Sussex taken in 1274. The sheriff, Matthew of Hastings, successfully appealed for the release of a group of six innocent men from jail, including William de la Wynde and his son John de la Wynde.