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Currently the page says the name Euan is derived from both Pictish, via Gaelic and from Hebrew via Greek. I find it extremely unlikely that both of these can be true since there would have been relatively little contact between these two groups of people before early modern times. The Gaelic origins are sourced and the Greek is not, and was added in it's entirely in one recent edit, which makes me think it's probably the inaccurate one, but as I don't know enough to say for sure I've just tagged it as needing a citation. [[User:Danikat|Danikat]] ([[User talk:Danikat|talk]]) 20:33, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
Currently the page says the name Euan is derived from both Pictish, via Gaelic and from Hebrew via Greek. I find it extremely unlikely that both of these can be true since there would have been relatively little contact between these two groups of people before early modern times. The Gaelic origins are sourced and the Greek is not, and was added in it's entirely in one recent edit, which makes me think it's probably the inaccurate one, but as I don't know enough to say for sure I've just tagged it as needing a citation. [[User:Danikat|Danikat]] ([[User talk:Danikat|talk]]) 20:33, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

:What one problem is was that they linked it to one name Eoghan and then to John. In Irish the Biblical name John is Eoin (pronounced the same as Eoghan) and a later medieval name more well known, Sean. Eoghan OTOH either comes from the word for Yew or is from the Latin Eugenius from Greek.
:John was from Hebrew and then Greek writings and then Latin.
:So it's another screwed up wiki article, aka snafu. [[Special:Contributions/74.104.144.218|74.104.144.218]] ([[User talk:74.104.144.218|talk]]) 16:36, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

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Pictish/Gaelic or Greek/Hebrew?

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Currently the page says the name Euan is derived from both Pictish, via Gaelic and from Hebrew via Greek. I find it extremely unlikely that both of these can be true since there would have been relatively little contact between these two groups of people before early modern times. The Gaelic origins are sourced and the Greek is not, and was added in it's entirely in one recent edit, which makes me think it's probably the inaccurate one, but as I don't know enough to say for sure I've just tagged it as needing a citation. Danikat (talk) 20:33, 1 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

What one problem is was that they linked it to one name Eoghan and then to John. In Irish the Biblical name John is Eoin (pronounced the same as Eoghan) and a later medieval name more well known, Sean. Eoghan OTOH either comes from the word for Yew or is from the Latin Eugenius from Greek.
John was from Hebrew and then Greek writings and then Latin.
So it's another screwed up wiki article, aka snafu. 74.104.144.218 (talk) 16:36, 8 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]