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Siân (also Sian, Shân, Shahn; English: / ʃ ɑː n / SHAHN, Welsh:) is a Welsh feminine given name, equivalent to the English Jane, Scottish Sheena or Irish Siobhán. List of people with the name [ edit ]
Sinéad (/ ʃ ɪ ˈ n eɪ d / shin-AYD, Irish: [ˈʃɪnʲeːd̪ˠ, ʃɪˈnʲeːd̪ˠ]) is an Irish feminine name. It is derived from the French Jeanette, which is cognate to the English Janet, itself a feminine form of the Hebrew Yohannan, "God forgave/God gratified".
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).
English, most Indo-European languages, and many others use various forms of the name China and the prefix "Sino-" or "Sin-" from the Latin Sina. [ 83 ] [ 84 ] Europeans had knowledge of a country known in Greek as Thina or Sina from the early period; [ 85 ] the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea from perhaps the first century AD recorded a country ...
Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor [18] was born on 8 December 1966 at the Cascia House Nursing Home on Baggot Street in Dublin. [1] She was named Sinéad after Sinéad de Valera, the mother of the doctor who presided over her delivery (Éamon de Valera, Jnr.), and Bernadette in honour of Saint Bernadette of Lourdes.
Speakers of Newfoundland English may seem to speak faster than other Canadian English speakers. The perceived tempo difference may be a coupling of obvious pronunciation differences with Newfoundland's unusual sayings and is a contributing factor to the difficulty that outsiders sometimes experience with understanding the dialect.
Pronunciation is the way in which a word or a language is spoken. This may refer to generally agreed-upon sequences of sounds used in speaking a given word or language in a specific dialect ("correct" or "standard" pronunciation) or simply the way a particular individual speaks a word or language. [1] (Pronunciation ⓘ)
Sina and the Eel, a Samoan myth of origin; Society for Indecency to Naked Animals, a satirical hoax perpetuated by Alan Abel "Sina", a song by Brazilian singer Djavan "Soulfood To Go (Sina)", English title of a cover of this song by Manhattan Transfer (band)