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Of all the stupid and fooked up ways to spell Seán


This has to be the worst. He was so close I would be fine with it without the á but adding a redundant extra n???? WTF seriously.






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Sean is from Hebrew origin (meaning Gift of God) and Seann is from Gaelic origin (meaning Old (Ancient) Hero, Hero of Legends). Just a matter that neither of the two spellings is from English, by the way... and maybe someone who is critic about the spelling with two n has to remember, from time to time, that he/she is... not omniscient. By the way, if I remember well, seán, with the acute accent over the a, is the adjective form of seann (can be wrong on that one, I don't speak Gaelic).

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Region of origin; Irish cognate of John, which is of Hebrew origins.

Seán (Ulster dialect spelling Séan) is an Irish language name. It is Irish borrowing of the Norman French Jehan (Jean). Anglicisations of the name include Sean, Shane, Shayne, Shaine, Shan, Shon, Shaun, and Shawn. The name Shane comes from the Ulster pronunciation of the name, whereas the names Shaun, Shawn, or Sean come from the way it is pronounced in Munster, Leinster, and Connacht. (these are provinces of Ireland)

Origination
In 1066, the Norman duke, William the Conqueror conquered England, where the Norman French name Jehan / Johan came to be pronounced Jean, and spelled John. The Norman from the Welsh Marches, with the Norman King of England's mandate conquered Ireland in the 1170s. The Irish nobility was replaced by Norman nobles, some of whom bore the Norman French name Johan or the Anglicised name John. The Irish adapted the name to their own pronunciation and spelling, producing the name Seán. Sean is commonly pronounced Shawn, but in the northern parts of Ireland (owing to a northern dialect), it is pronounced "Shan", "Shen" or "Shayn" (Séan, with the accent on the e instead of the a), thus leading to the variant Shane.

As Far as I can see Seán is used by Hebrew people probably because it is a nice name not because it comes from that language. the Hebrew equivalent of Shaun, which is the name 'Yokhanan'. That is the Hebrew name of John the Baptist, which has been translated to different languages as John, Jean, Johann, Ian, Sean, etc.

Ok So let me break it down for you Seán is Irish for the name John in Hebrew it is Yokhanan, it all comes from John the Baptists. I do not think I am omniscient that is just the way I was taught it because I am Irish.











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Some sites differenciate both origins, with the hebrew meaning, "gift of God", "God is gratious", being very different meaning than the gaelic one ( Some sites precise that Seann is from "Scottish Gealic" ) "old hero". See http://babynamesworld.parentsconnect.com/search.php?p=qsearch&s_gender=1&s_copt=2&i_search=sean for a mix of both meanings, which surely add to the confusion.

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Whatever you think the meaning is it is the Irish for John end of. Byezzzzz!









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Whatever I think or whatever references I can bring? You seem so sure to know everything, that I suspect that you don't really look to see if there was something that you missed here or there, or even to look to what other people can bring to Your divinely omniscient attention.

I never said that Jean is NOT from hebrew root, since there are many John in the Bible. I just say that it seems that Seann has also a possible purely gaelic origin, with a completely different meaning than the hebrew meaning.

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Whatever you are a loser for caring this much.

Oh by the way I am right it's just fact and has nothing to do with me thinking I'm omniscient, it is just all true what I have said.





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Whatever I am a loser or not has nothing to do with truth of your statements.

A "statement is true because you say it is true" is very far from being the strongest argument that I have ever read, even here.

And since you missed my point, apparently, I don't say that you are wrong, I say that there are alternatives to the origin of the word Seann, other than the Hebraic origin that you mentionned. Like Lucifer, in Hebrew, it is a deamon, but in Latin, it is the planet Venus. The same word may have more than one origin.

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You clearly can't let this go can you.








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