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41132
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Name 41132: Elegani
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name 41132
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Name
Elegani
Gender
female
Structure
simple
Type
monolingual
Genealogy
Blemmyan/Beja
Origin
foreign
Etymology
Meaning: cognate with the Bedauye 'ilogáni', 'sandstorm' (Reinisch 1895, p. 14) Hasitzka, Łajtar, and Markiewicz suggest that the name may derive from ⲉⲗ-, 'now' (cf. ⲉⲗⲉⲕⲕⲁⲛ, 'from now on').
Literature
Hasitzka – Łajtar – Markiewicz 1999, p. 20
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common word: noun
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