Surname · Armenian
Վանեցյան
“a person from Van”
Վանեցյան (Vanecʻyan) is a surname from Old Armenian, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European. It is used in Armenian.
ArmenianWritten in Armenian script. In English: Vanecʿyan.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Վանեցյան goes back to a word meaning “a person from Van.”
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Where it comes from
Վանեցյան comes from Old Armenian, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old Armenian -եան, from Proto-Indo-European *-iyn̥, built from Armenian վանեցի (“a person from Van”) + -յան.
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Վանեցյան’s family of names
In Armenian usage, Վանեցյան as a surname can be written in the Roman alphabet as Vanecʻyan. In Armenian usage, Վանեցյան as a surname has a transliteration in Vanecʿyan. In Armenian usage, Վանեցյան as a surname has a transliteration in Vanets’yan.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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