Given name
Tanais
Tanais is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European. It is used in Latin.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Tanais comes from Ancient Greek, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ancient Greek Τάναϊς, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰenh₂-.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Tanais’s family of names
In Latin usage, Tanais has a conventional equivalent in the French form Don.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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