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Ian

[ ee-uhn, ee-ahn, ahy-uhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a male given name, Scottish form of John.

-ian

a suffix with the same meaning and properties as -an, though -ian is now the more productive of the two suffixes in recent coinages, especially when the base noun ends in a consonant: Orwellian; Washingtonian .

-ian

suffix

a variant of -an
Johnsonian
Etonian

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of Ian¹

Extracted from Latin loanwords in which -��Գܲ� (adjective suffix) is joined to stems ending in i; -an

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of Ian¹

from Latin -��Գܲ�

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"I don't know if I have ever seen anyone make as big an impact in a football game. That is brilliant and it has made my night," said former England striker Ian Wright on ITV.

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"We knew it would go up but at the same time we thought, 'gosh, that has gone up more than what we thought it would'," said Sylvia's husband Ian.

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But the pressures on councils, Ian said, made things "difficult to balance".

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“It’s not something I grew up with,” said Ian MacAllen, author of “Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American,” when I called him at his Brooklyn apartment.

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Ian and Carol Atkinson, from Bingley, were ready to get their second City of Culture event under their belts with what they thought would be a quick visit.

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