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Evan is a Welsh masculine given name, derived from Iefan, a Welsh form of the name John. Similar names that share this origin include Euan , Ivan , Ian , and Juan . "John" itself is derived from the ancient Hebrew name יְהֹוחָנָן (romanised: Yəhôḥānān), meaning " Yahweh is gracious".
Another school of thought is that ‘Evan’ ( Yvain, Yvainne) is the Latinised Norman-French derivation of ‘Owain’. An example of this is ‘Yvain des Galles’ , better known as ‘Owain Llawgoch’ in his native Wales. In the Welsh language the patronymic "ab Evan" resulted in the anglicized surname "Bevan", which is also common in Wales ...
Ewan, a character from the TV series Merlin Season 1 Episode 2; Ewan O'Hara, Juliet O'Hara's brother on the TV series Psych; Ewan, a guard in the book The Wizard's Child; Ewan Doherty, Head of English in Teachers, a UK Channel 4 show
Jovan, Jan, Janez, Evan, Giovanni, Ifan, and "John" in other languages Look up Ivan , Иван , or Іван in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ivan ( Cyrillic : Иван / Іван ) is a Slavic male given name , connected with the variant of the Greek name Iōánnēs (English: John ) from Hebrew יוֹחָנָן Yôḥānnān meaning 'God is ...
The Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum derives Eógan from the Primitive Irish * Iwagenas, [4] while others such as Tomás Ua Concheanainn (Mion-chomhradh, in 1903) have stated that Eóghan equates to Owain and Eugene; [1] Dr Rachel Bromwich has commented that Eoghan is a derivation of the Latin Eugenius, [3] making these names long-attested in Gaelic areas, yet still based on loan ...
The poet Evan Evans repeated this story in 1764, but made Caswennan the name of the ship. Iolo Morganwg (1747–1826), antiquarian and forger, listed seven of the ships belonging to King Arthur which "conveyed the saints to Ynys Enlli". He included Gwennan but not Prydwen; the other six names were purely fanciful.
Etymonline, or Online Etymology Dictionary, sometimes abbreviated as OED (not to be confused with the Oxford English Dictionary, which the site often cites), is a free online dictionary that describes the origins of English words, written and compiled by Douglas R. Harper.
Toponymy or placename etymology. List of country-name etymologies. British — UK counties ...