different between joan vs jane

Basque

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /xo.an/
  • (Biscayan) IPA^(key): [d??o.an]
  • (Gipuzkoan) IPA^(key): [xo.an]
  • (Navarrese) IPA^(key): [jo.an]
  • (Navarro-Lapurdian) IPA^(key): [?o.an]
  • (Souletin) IPA^(key): [?o.an]

Verb

joan (present participle joaten, future participle joango, infinitive joan, verbal noun joate)

1. to go

2. to concern, affect, involve

Usage notes

Joan only means "to concern" when there is a dative (NORI) argument present. This can either be expressed synthetically in the verb joan or as a form of the auxiliary verb izan.

Conjugation

Further reading

• “joan” in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus
• “joan” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish dend. Cognate with Irish deannach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?aun/

Noun

joan m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. dust

Mutation

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?e?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n
• Homophone: Jain

Etymology 1

From Old French Jannes (“Genoway”).

Noun

jane (plural janes)

1. (obsolete) A silver Genovese coin, first used in England in the 14th century.
   • 14th c, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Rime of Sire Thopas, The Canterbury Tales, 1793, A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, Volume 1, page 124,

     His robe was of chekelatoun, / That coste many a jane.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii:

     Certes was but a common Courtisane, / Yet flat refusd to haue a do with mee, / Because I could not giue her many a Iane.

Etymology 2

Alternative forms.

Noun

jane (plural janes)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Jane, a woman.
2. Alternative spelling of jean
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. VII, Over-Production

     Ye miscellaneous, ignoble manufacturing individuals, ye have produced too much! We accuse you of making above two-hundred thousand shirts for the bare backs of mankind. Your trousers too, which you have made, of fustian, of cassimere, of Scotch-plaid, of jane, nankeen and woollen broadcloth, are they not manifold?

3. A female client of a prostitute.

Anagrams

• Jaen, Jaén, Jean, Jena, jean

Japanese

Romanization

jane

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

jane

1. locative singular of jana
2. accusative plural of jana