Jordán
Jordan is a masculine name derived from the biblical river where Jesus Christ was baptized according to the Gospels. It spread throughout Europe during the Middle Ages, popularized by crusaders and pilgrims returning from the Holy Land. In modern English and several other languages, it has also become widely popular as a unisex name.
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Origin and etymology of the name
Scholarly onomastic and linguistic analysisNamed after the Jordan River, traditionally interpreted as "flowing down" or "descending".
Detailed Slovak etymology analysis
Meno pochádza z hebrejského hydronyma Jardén (יַרְדֵּן), tradične spájaného so semitským slovesným koreňom j-r-d s významom „zostupovať“ alebo „klesať“. Pôvodne označovalo rieku Jordán. Ako osobné meno sa v kresťanskej Európe rozšírilo najmä v stredoveku v súvislosti s púťami do Svätej zeme a krstom vodou prinesenou z Jordánu.
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JORDAN
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Regional Central European form16 foreign variants
Česky, Anglicky, Maďarsky- •Mierna diakritika – v medzinárodnom styku sa ľahko prepisuje do základnej latinky.
- •Univerzálna výslovnosť – neobsahuje zhluky hlások náročné pre cudzincov.
- •Ideálna dvojslabičná dĺžka – melodická a rýchlo zapamätateľná na celom svete.
- •Globálne rozšírené meno – má priame ekvivalenty vo viac než 10 svetových jazykoch.
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Canadian clinical psychologist, author, and political commentator and manosphere activist (1962-)
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