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Fitz – (Irish, from Norman French) "son of", from Latin " filius" meaning "son" (mistakenly thought to mean illegitimate son, because of its use for certain illegitimate sons of English kings) [citation needed] i – "and", always in lowercase, used to identify both surnames (e.g. Antoni Gaudí i Cornet) [11]
Mann is a German, Dutch, Jewish (Ashkenazic), English, Irish or Scottish surname, of Germanic origin.It means 'man', 'person', 'husband'. In the runic alphabet, the meaning 'man', 'human', is represented by the single character ᛗ.
In the indefinite form ("son of Adam", "son of man", "like a man") used in the Hebrew Bible, it is a form of address, or it contrasts humans with God and the angels, or contrasts foreign nations (like the Sasanian Empire and Babylon), which are often represented as animals in apocalyptic writings (bear, goat, or ram), with Israel which is ...
In Jamaican Patois, batty boy (also batty bwoy, batty man, and chi chi bwoy/man) is a slur often used to refer to a gay or effeminate man. [1] The term batiman (or battyman) is also used in Belize owing to the popularity of Jamaican music there. [2] [3] The term derives from the Jamaican slang word batty, which refers to buttocks. [4]
Guy (/ ɡ aɪ / ghy, French:) is a masculine given name derived from an abbreviated version of a Germanic name that began either with witu, meaning wood, or wit, meaning wide. In French, the letter w became gu and the name became Gy or Guido. In Latin, the name was written as Wido.
Sons of Adam or son of Adam may refer to: Cain and Abel, the first and second sons of Adam and Eve; Seth, the third son of Adam and Eve; Son of man, or son of Adam, a biblical phrase; Bani Adam (Persian: بنیآدم; Arabic: بني آدم; Hebrew: בן־אדם; lit. 'Sons of Adam'), a Persian poem by Saadi Shirazi
Son of Man, a 1971 novel by Robert Silverberg; Son of Man, a 1979 novel by Yi Munyol; Son of Man, a 2004 collected edition of Hellblazer #129–133; Hijo de hombre (Son of God), a 1960 novel by Augusto Roa Bastos; The Son of Man, a 1998 book by Andrew Harvey; Jesus, the Son of Man, a 1928 book by Kahlil Gibran
Example: Petrosyan, meaning "issued from Petros", akin to the English name Peterson as "son of Peter". Some Armenian last names bear the suffix -նց ([nʦʰ]), which is a plural genitive suffix, transliterated as -nc, -nts or -ntz (as in Bakunts or Adontz), or in addition to -yan/-ian (as in Parajaniants). This is not common, although it used ...