"Then" meaning in English

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Proper name

Forms: Thens [plural]
Etymology: * As a south German surname, from the personal name Thön, a form of Anthony. * Also as a German surname, a variant of Ten, occupational surname for a mintmaster, from obsolete Middle Low German ten, tene (“blank; disk from which a coin is made”), possibly related to Proto-Germanic *tainaz (“metal rod”), or perhaps otherwise from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch”). * Also as a German name, from the noun Tenne (“threshing-floor”). * As a Chinese surname, a Romanization of 鄧/邓 (dèng) (see Deng) and 田 (tián) (see Tian). Etymology templates: {{der|en|de|-}} German, {{der|en|gml|ten, tene|t=blank; disk from which a coin is made}} Middle Low German ten, tene (“blank; disk from which a coin is made”), {{der|en|gem-pro|*tainaz|t=metal rod}} Proto-Germanic *tainaz (“metal rod”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*ten-|t=to stretch}} Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch”), {{der|en|zh|-}} Chinese Head templates: {{en-proper noun|Thens}} Then (plural Thens)
  1. A surname.

Inflected forms

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