"Brendan" meaning in All languages combined

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Proper name [English]

Etymology: Anglicized form of the name of Irish saints, Irish Bréanainn (via Latin Brendanus), from Old Irish Brénainn, from Old Welsh breenhin (“prince, king”), ultimately from Proto-Celtic *brigantīnos (“(someone) preeminent, outstanding”), a diminutive of *brigantī (“high, exalted”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|ga|Bréanainn}} Irish Bréanainn, {{der|en|la|Brendanus}} Latin Brendanus, {{der|en|sga|Brénainn}} Old Irish Brénainn, {{der|en|owl|breenhin|5=prince, king}} Old Welsh breenhin (“prince, king”), {{der|en|cel-pro|*brigantīnos|5=(someone) preeminent, outstanding}} Proto-Celtic *brigantīnos (“(someone) preeminent, outstanding”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Brendan
  1. A male given name from Irish. Categories (topical): English given names, English male given names Synonyms: Brandon, Brenden, Brendon, Brennan Translations (male given name): Brandan [masculine] (Catalan), 布倫丹 (Chinese Mandarin), 布伦丹 (Bùlúndān) (Chinese Mandarin), Brandaan [masculine] (Dutch), Brendan (French), Brandán [masculine] (Galician), Bréanainn [masculine] (Irish), Breandán [masculine] (Irish), Breanndán [masculine] (Irish), Brendano (Italian), ブレンダン (Burendan) (Japanese), Brendanus [masculine] (Latin), Brendanas (Lithuanian), Брендан (english: Brendan) (Macedonian), Brénainn [masculine] (Old Irish), Brandão [masculine] (Portuguese), Брендан (english: Brendan) [masculine] (Russian), Brianann [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), Borondón (Spanish), Брендан (english: Brendan) [masculine] (Ukrainian), Brandaan (West Frisian)

Proper name [Faroese]

Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], Brendan [indefinite, nominative], Brendan [accusative, indefinite], Brendani [dative, indefinite], Brendans [genitive, indefinite]
Etymology: Germanic form of Latin Brendanus Etymology templates: {{der|fo|la|Brendanus}} Latin Brendanus Head templates: {{head|fo|proper noun|g=m}} Brendan m Inflection templates: {{fo-decl-proper-noun-s-indef|Brendan|Brendan|Brendani|Brendans}}
  1. a male given name Tags: masculine Categories (topical): Faroese given names, Faroese male given names
    Sense id: en-Brendan-fo-name-h8YdwBAs Categories (other): Faroese entries with incorrect language header

Alternative forms

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  "section": "Faroese",
  "subsection": "proper noun",
  "title": "Brendan",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/2466",
  "msg": "accepted heuristic header: table cell identified as header and given candidate status, AND the cleaned text is in LANGUAGES_WITH_CELLS_AS_HEADERS[Faroese]; cleaned text: Genitive",
  "path": [
    "Brendan"
  ],
  "section": "Faroese",
  "subsection": "proper noun",
  "title": "Brendan",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-27 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (bb24e0f and c7ea76d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.