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Word: Alan
Speech Type: Noun
late Middle English; earliest use found in Vegetius' De Re Militari. From classical Latin Alānus (plural Alānī) member of an ancient Iranian-speaking people, related to the Scythians and Sarmatians from an Iranian ethnonym (ultimately cognate with Persian īrān, the name of Iran), apparently from the same Indo-Iranian base as Old Persian ariya + a suffix from the Indo-European base of -an
A member of a nomadic people of the northern Caucasus from whom the Ossetians are thought to be descended.
Word: Alan
Speech Type: Adjective
Of or relating to the Alans or their language; Alanic.
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