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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

Yana en · PROPN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈjɑː.nə/ (UK, US)

Etymology

Cognate to English Jane, ultimately from Hebrew, feminine form of Ioannes ( =John).

Meanings

  1. A female given name from the Slavic languages. A romanization of the Bulgarian or Russian or Ukrainian name Я́на (Jána).
  2. A river in Sakha (Yakutia), Russia that rises near Verkhoyansk and flows into the Yana Bay of the Laptev Sea.

Yana en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /ˈjɑː.nə/ (UK, US)

Etymology

From Yana yana (“person, people”).

Meanings

  1. A member of a North American Indian people who once resided in the eastern portion of the upper Sacramento River valley in California.

Forms

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Yana en · PROPN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /ˈjɑː.nə/ (UK, US)

Etymology

From Yana yana (“person, people”).

Meanings

  1. The now extinct language of the Yana people, best known for a systematic differentiation between men's and women's speech.

Synonyms

Yanan