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  2. List of Scottish clans - Wikipedia

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    Clan name Crest badge Clan tartan Blazon of crest & motto within crest badge; war cry and plant badge Clan chief; and clan seat, or historical seat Notes Abercromby [4] Crest: A falcon rising belled Proper. [5] Motto: Petit alta [6] [Latin, 'He seeks high deeds'] [5] Chief: none, armigerous clan. Seat: Abercrombie, Fife. Abernethy [4]

  3. List of people, clan, and place names in Germanic heroic ...

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    The two other ethnonyms that appear in the same line belong to the southern part of the Scandinavian peninsula. The name corresponds to the Icelandic hrani ("coarse, crude, heedless person") and the Old Norse name Hrani ("blusterer, boaster"). The word hrani has been explained as "the one who squeals like a pig". [187]

  4. Clan - Wikipedia

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    The English word "clan" is derived from old English word clann [1] meaning "children", "offspring", "progeny" or "descendants". According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "clan" was introduced into English in around 1406, as a descriptive label for the organization of society in Ireland and the Scottish Highlands.

  5. Japanese clans - Wikipedia

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    By allowing adult adoption, or for men to take their wife's name and be adopted into her family served as a means to pass down an estate to a family without any sons, Japan has managed to retain continuous family leadership for many of the below clans, the royal family, and even ordinary family businesses. [1] [2]

  6. List of early Germanic peoples - Wikipedia

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    This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards. You can help. The talk page may contain suggestions. (May 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The list of early Germanic peoples is a catalog of ancient Germanic cultures, tribal groups, and other alliances of Germanic tribes and civilizations from antiquity. This information is derived from ...

  7. List of ancient Greek tribes - Wikipedia

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    Greek word for tribe was Phylē (sing.) and Phylai (pl.), the tribe was further subdivided in Demes (sing. Demos, pl. Demoi) roughly matching to a clan. The name Pelasgians was used exclusively by the ancient Greek writers, who referred to the populations they considered the ancestors of the Greeks or "pre-Hellenic".

  8. List of medieval Mongol tribes and clans - Wikipedia

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    Olkhonud, the clan of Temüjin's mother (D); Mongolian: Olkhunuud; Khongirad, the tribe Börte, Temüjin's first wife, descends from (D) some clans whose members join Temüjin after the first victory over the Merkit and the separation from Jamukha: Jalair' Tarkhut; Bishi'ut; Mongolian: Bishiüd; Bayads

  9. Norse clans - Wikipedia

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    The Norse clan was not tied to a certain territory in the same way as a Scottish clan, where the chief owned the territory. The land of the Scandinavian clan was owned by the individuals who had close neighbours from other clans. The name of the clan was derived from its ancestor, often with the addition of an -ung or -ing ending.