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"text": "Bast. A foot of Honor better then I was,\nBut many a many foot of Land the worse.\nWell, now can I make any Ioane a Lady,\nGood den Sir Richard, Godamercy fellow,\nAnd if his name be George, Ile call him Peter;\nFor new made honor doth forget mens names...",
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"ref": "2014, Antonia Senior, Treason's Daughter, page 169",
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"form": "Yoan",
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"tags": [
"lenition",
"mutation"
]
},
{
"form": "N'yoan",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"eclipsis",
"mutation"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gv",
"2": "proper noun",
"g": "f"
},
"expansion": "Joan f",
"name": "head"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "J",
"2": "oan"
},
"name": "gv-mut-cons"
}
],
"lang": "Manx",
"lang_code": "gv",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Manx entries with incorrect language header",
"Manx female given names",
"Manx feminine nouns",
"Manx given names",
"Manx lemmas",
"Manx proper nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"a female given name"
],
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
}
],
"word": "Joan"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "proper noun"
},
"expansion": "Joan",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "John"
}
],
"categories": [
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English proper nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of John"
],
"links": [
[
"John",
"John#Middle English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "Joan"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "oc",
"2": "la",
"3": "Iohannes"
},
"expansion": "Latin Iohannes",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "oc",
"2": "grc",
"3": "Ἰωάννης"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "oc",
"2": "he",
"3": "יוחנן",
"4": "",
"5": "Yahweh is gracious",
"tr": "Yôḥānān"
},
"expansion": "Hebrew יוחנן (Yôḥānān, “Yahweh is gracious”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin Iohannes, from Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Hebrew יוחנן (Yôḥānān, “Yahweh is gracious”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "oc",
"2": "proper noun"
},
"expansion": "Joan",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Occitan",
"lang_code": "oc",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Occitan entries with incorrect language header",
"Occitan given names",
"Occitan lemmas",
"Occitan male given names",
"Occitan proper nouns",
"Occitan terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"Occitan terms derived from Hebrew",
"Occitan terms derived from Latin",
"Occitan terms inherited from Latin",
"Occitan terms with IPA pronunciation"
],
"glosses": [
"a male given name, equivalent to English John"
],
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
],
[
"John",
"John#English"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/d͡ʒuˈan/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈd͡ʒwan/"
}
],
"word": "Joan"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "yol",
"2": "proper noun"
},
"expansion": "Joan",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Yola",
"lang_code": "yol",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Yola entries with incorrect language header",
"Yola given names",
"Yola lemmas",
"Yola male given names",
"Yola proper nouns",
"Yola terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "St. John is our brother.",
"ref": "1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY",
"text": "Sank Joan is oor brover.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"a male given name, variant of Jone"
],
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
],
[
"Jone",
"Jone#Yola"
]
]
}
],
"word": "Joan"
}
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