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"ref": "1975, Robertson Davies, World of Wonders, page 736",
"text": "“If you want a Scotch name why don’t you call him Jock?” Macgregor looked disgusted. “Because Jock is not a name, but a diminutive, as everybody knows well. It is the diminutive of John. And John is not a Scots name. The Scots form of that name is Ian. If you want to call him Ian Fetch, I shall say no more”.",
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],
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"word": "Sìne"
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"code": "be",
"english": "Jan",
"lang": "Belarusian",
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"word": "Ян"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "Yī'ēn",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "伊恩"
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"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Ian"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Juha"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Juho"
},
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"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "Ian",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "イアン"
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{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "Ieon",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "이언"
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"sense": "male given name",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "Iván"
},
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"ipa": "/ˈiː.ən/"
},
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"ipa": "/ˈaɪ.ən/"
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"ref": "1975, Robertson Davies, World of Wonders, page 736",
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"Eòin",
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"sense": "male given name",
"word": "伊恩"
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"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Ian"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Juha"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "Juho"
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"roman": "Ian",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "イアン"
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"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "Ieon",
"sense": "male given name",
"word": "이언"
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"word": "Ян"
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"tags": [
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