Surname · Armenian
Սիսլյան
“someone from Sis (a town in Cilicia)”
Սիսլյան (Sislyan) is a surname from Old Armenian, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European. It is used in Armenian.
ArmenianWritten in Armenian script. In English: Sislyan.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Սիսլյան goes back to a word meaning “someone from Sis (a town in Cilicia).”
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Where it comes from
Սիսլյան comes from Old Armenian, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
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How it developed
From Old Armenian -եան, from Proto-Indo-European *-iyn̥, built from Ottoman Turkish سيسلی (sisli, “someone from Sis (a town in Cilicia)”) + Armenian -յան.
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Սիսլյան’s family of names
In Armenian usage, Սիսլյան as a surname can be written in the Roman alphabet as Sislyan. In Armenian usage, Սիսլյան as a surname has a transliteration in Sislyan. In Armenian usage, Սիսլյան as a surname has a related form in Սիսլեան.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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