Yana
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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Cognate to English Jane, ultimately from Hebrew, feminine form of Ioannes ( =John).(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Proper noun
Yana
- A female given name from the Slavic languages. A romanization of the Bulgarian or Russian name Я́на (Jána).
- A river in Sakha (Yakutia), Russia that rises near Verkhoyansk and flows into the Yana Bay of the Laptev Sea.
Etymology 2
From Yana yana (“person, people”).
Noun
Yana (plural Yanas or Yana)
- A member of a North American Indian people who once resided in the eastern portion of the upper Sacramento River valley in California.
Proper noun
Yana
- The now extinct language of the Yana people, best known for a systematic differentiation between men's and women's speech.