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"Agnes" was the third-most popular name for women in the English-speaking world for more than 400 years. [2] Its medieval English pronunciation was Annis , and its usage and many of its forms coincided with the equally popular name "Anna" , related in medieval and Elizabethan times to Agnes , though Anne/Ann/Anna derive from the Hebrew 'Hannah ...
Inez is a feminine given name. It is the English spelling of the Spanish and Portuguese name Inés/Inês/Inez, the forms of the given name "Agnes". The name is pronounced as / iː ˈ n ɛ z /, / aɪ ˈ n ɛ z /, or / aɪ ˈ n ɛ θ /. [citation needed] Agnes is a woman's given name, which derives from the Greek word hagnē, meaning "pure" or ...
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).
Nancy is an English language given name for women. The name Nancy was originally a diminutive form of Annis, a medieval English vernacular form of Agnes. In some English dialects, "mine" was used instead of "my" and "Mine Ancy" eventually became Nancy. The name was also later used as an English diminutive of Anne or Ann. It has been used as an ...
[35] [36] Among these, /f, z/, also found in English and Portuguese loanwords, are now considered well-established in Hindi; indeed, /f/ appears to be encroaching upon and replacing /pʰ/ even in native (non-Persian, non-English, non-Portuguese) Hindi words as well as many other Indian languages such as Bengali, Gujarati and Marathi, as ...
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Hindi and Urdu on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Hindi and Urdu in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Agnes (name), the given name, and a list of people named Agnes or Agness; Agnes (surname), list of people with the surname; Agnes (case study) (born 1939), pseudonym for one of the first studied transgender women
Agnes (and its variant Agnès) is a surname. Notable people with the surname are as follows: Akite Agnes (born 1983), Ugandan stand-up comedian and actress; Flavia Agnes (born 1947), Indian lawyer; Lore Agnes (1876–1953), German politician; Mario Agnes (1931–2018), Italian journalist