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Thegn. Ivory seal of Godwin, an unknown thegn – first half of eleventh century, British Museum. In later Anglo-Saxon England, a thegn ( pronounced / θeɪn /; Old English: þeġn) or thane[ 1] (or thayn in Shakespearean English) was an aristocrat who owned substantial land in one or more counties. Thanes ranked at the third level in lay ...
Shane is mainly a masculine given name. It is an anglicized version of the Irish name Séaghan/Séan, which itself is cognate to the name John. [ 1] Shane comes from the way the name Seán is pronounced in the Ulster dialect of the Irish language, as opposed to Shaun or Shawn .
Amanda Thane (1953–2012), Australian operatic soprano. Bartlett L. Thane (1877–1927), American mining engineer, namesake of the Juneau neighborhood. Elswyth Thane (1900–1984), American romance novelist. Lucy Thane (born 1967), British documentary filmmaker, event producer and performer. Pat Thane ( fl. 1998–present ), British history ...
Eugene is a common male given name that comes from the Greek εὐγενής ( eugenēs ), "noble", literally "well-born", [ 1] from εὖ ( eu ), "well" [ 2] and γένος ( genos ), "race, stock, kin". [ 3] Gene is a common shortened form. The feminine variant is Eugenia or Eugenie . Egon, a common given name in parts of central and northern ...
It is situated in the north-eastern portion of the Salsette Island . Thane city is situated entirely within Thane taluka, one of the seven talukas of Thane district. It serves as the headquarters of the district. Thane city ranks as the 15th most populous city in India, with a population of 1,890,000 according to the 2011 census. [ 1]
Thane (/ ˈ θ eɪ n /; Scottish Gaelic: taidhn) [1] was the title given to a local royal official in medieval eastern Scotland, equivalent in rank to the son of an earl, [2] who was at the head of an administrative and socio-economic unit known as a thanedom or thanage.
This Greek name is a feminine form of the Greek Iōannēs (Ἰωάννης), [7] which is in turn a shortened form of the Hebrew Johanan [8] (יוֹחָנָן Yôḥānān, a shortened form of יְהוֹחָנָן Yəhôḥānān), meaning 'God is gracious', and origin of the masculine name John and its cognates. [citation needed]
Aaron (given name) Aaron is an English masculine given name. The 'h' phoneme in the original Hebrew pronunciation "Aharon" (אהרן) is dropped in the Greek, Ἀαρών, from which the English form, Aaron, is derived. Aaron, the brother of Moses, is described in the Torah, the Quran and the Baha'i Iqan.