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During the first period of recorded history the island was occupied by Celtic speaking peoples and later Christianised by Irish missionaries. By the 9th century Vikings, generally from Norway, ruled the island: Old Norse speaking settlers intermarried with the Gaelic speaking native population, and Norse personal names found their way into common Manx usage.
The Manx name of the Isle of Man is Ellan Vannin: ellan (Manx pronunciation:), a Manx word meaning "island"; Mannin (IPA:) appears in the genitive case as Vannin (IPA:), with initial consonant mutation, hence Ellan Vannin, "Island of Mann". The short form used in English is spelled either Mann or Man.
A New History of the Isle of Man, Volume 2: Prehistory. Duffy, Sean (2005). A New History of the Isle of Man, Volume 3: The Medieval Period, 1000-1406. Belchem, John (2001). A New History of the Isle of Man, Volume 5: The Modern Period, 1830-1999. Gawne, C.W. (2009). The Isle of Man and Britain: Controversy, 1651-1895, from Smuggling to the ...
The Chronicles of the Kings of Mann and the Isles [16] [17] or Manx Chronicle is a manuscript relating the early history of the Isle of Man. The Chronicles are a yearly account of significant events in Manx history from 1016. Written in Latin, it documents the island's role as the centre of the Norse kingdom of Mann and the Isles.
If, for whatever reason, a new language becomes spoken in the area, a place name may lose all meaning. At its most severe, the name may be completely replaced. However, often the name may be recycled and altered in some way. Typically, this will be in one of the above ways; as the meaning of place-name is forgotten, it becomes changed to a name ...
The Isle of Man is an island and a self-governing Crown dependency; Coastline: Irish Sea 160 km; Population of the Isle of Man: 80,058 - 194th most populous country; Area of the Isle of Man: 572 km 2 (221 sq mi) - 191st largest country; Atlas of the Isle of Man; List of places in the Isle of Man
J.J. Kneen, a historian on the Isle of Man, suggests the surname to be of Norse origin. While some sources from Manx genealogists agree that the lineage of Corrins are of Celtic origin, most argue that pre-1400s documents point to a Norse source through the name of Thorfinn, possibly in terms of places, such as Malew (an area of significant ...
The meaning and origin of name of Latvian people is unclear, however the root lat-/let- is associated with several Baltic hydronyms and might share common origin with the Liet-part of neighbouring Lithuania (Lietuva, see below) and name of Latgalians – one of the Baltic tribes that are considered ancestors of modern Latvian people.