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27267
Name no.
Name 27267: Amana
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name 27267
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Name
Amana
Gender
female
Structure
compound?
Type
monolingual?
Genealogy
Nubian?
Origin
local?
Etymology
Meaning: Heuser (p. 125) suggests 'mother Anna', from ⲁⲙⲁ + ⲁⲛⲛⲁ, but this is rather a Nubian name consisting of ⲁⲙⲁⲛ-, 'river' + -ⲁ = 'the river'.
Literature
cf. G. Heuser, Die Personennamen der Kopten I: Untersuchungen, Leipzig 1929, p. 125
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Secular character
common word: participle
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