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jan | yan |

As proper nouns the difference between jan and yan

is that jan is abbreviation of January|lang=en while Yan is an ancient march, duchy, and kingdom of northeastern China during the Zhou dynasty.

As a noun jan

is obsolete form of lang=en.

As a numeral yan is

one.

jan

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)

    • Etymology 1

    From (etyl)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (dated)

    • Etymology 2

    Shortened from (Janet) and (Janice).

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A female nickname, sometimes used as a formal given name.
  • * 1899 Paul Leicester Ford: Janice Meredith : Chapter 1:
    • "Yes, Mommy," answered Janice. Then she turned to her friend and asked, "Shall I wear my light chintz and kenton kerchief, or my purple and white striped Persian?" "Sufficiently smart for a country lass, Jan ," cried her friend.
  • * 2008 , (Stephen King), Just After Sunset , Simon and Schuster (2009), ISBN 1416586652, page 129:
    • She's startled. How long has it been since he called her Jax instead of Janet or Jan ? The last is a nickname she secretly hates. It makes her think of that syrupy-sweet actress on Lassie when she was a kid, the little boy (Timmy, his name was Timmy) always fell down a well or got bitten by a snake or trapped under a rock, and what kind of parents put a kid's life in the hands of a fucking collie?

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl), (etyl), (etyl), (etyl), modern Scandinavian etc. Jan, from (etyl) .

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A male given name, in English mostly applied to foreign language speakers.
    • English diminutives of female given names ----

    yan

    English

    (wikipedia yan)

    Etymology 1

    Along with (m) and yen, a Northumbrian form of one, from the (etyl) . An example is "yan, twee, tree" for "one, two, three".

    Numeral

    (head)
  • (cardinal, North East England, dialect) one
    • Derived terms
    * yance or yence
    References
    * {{reference-book , last = Griffiths , first = Bill , title = A Dictionary of North East Dialect , origyear = 2004 , publisher = Northumbria University Press , id = ISBN 1-904794-16-5 , pages = 191 }} * {{reference-book , last = Leith , first = Dick , title = A Social History of English , origyear = 1997 , publisher = Routledge , id = ISBN 0415097975, 9780415097970 , pages = 45 }}

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) numerals, with influence from Old English or modern Northern English yan or yen.

    Numeral

    (head)
  • (cardinal, North West England, dialect) one in Cumbrian sheep counting rhyme.
    • (Yan Tan Tethera)
    Derived terms
    * yan-a-dick * yan-a-bumfit
    See also
    *
    References
    * {{reference-book , last = Wright , first = Peter , title = Cumbrian Chat , origyear = 1995 , publisher = Dalesman Publishing Company , id = ISBN 185-568-092-0 , pages = 7 }} * {{reference-book , last = Deakin , first = Michael A.B. , editor = Leigh-Lancaster, David , title = The Name of the Number , origyear = 2007 , url = http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sSGPsbUdzuMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Name+of+the+Number&client=firefox-a&sig=rltANTWrl82R7Ho4mEv0PivE698 , accessdate = 2008-05-17 , publisher = Australian Council for Educational Research , id = ISBN 0864317573 , pages = 75 }} * {{reference-book , last = Varvogli , first = Aliki , title = Annie Proulx's The Shipping News: A Reader's Guide , origyear = 2002 , url = http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YwW7f0jB9swC&printsec=frontcover&dq=subject:%22Proulx,+Annie%22&client=firefox-a&sig=1V4j_clhRbrJm7XnesnFDk8NU0Q , accessdate = 2008-05-17 , publisher = Continuum International Publishing Group , id = ISBN 0826452337 , pages = 24-25 }}

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