Английская Википедия:Iona (name)
Шаблон:About Iona is a given name that is taken from the Scottish island of Iona,[1][2] which has a particular significance in the history of Christianity. The derivation of this island name itself is uncertain. The earliest forms of the name enabled place-name scholar William J. Watson to state that it originally meant something like "yew-place".[3]
The modern English name of the island comes from the Irish Ioua,[4][5] which was either Adomnán's attempt to make the Gaelic name fit Latin grammar or a genuine derivative from Ivova ("yew place").[6] Ioua eventually became Iona, first attested from c.1274,[7] and results from a transcription mistake resulting from the similarity of "n" and "u" in Insular Minuscule.[8]
Other speculative suggestions have been made for the derivation such as an Old Norse origin from Hiōe meaning "island of the den of the brown bear".[5]
Iona is also the Russian form of the male name Jonah.
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References
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Шаблон:Haswell-Smith
- Шаблон:Cite web
- Watson, W.J. (1926) The History of the Celtic Place-names of Scotland. Reprinted with an introduction by Simon Taylor. Birlinn: Edinburgh, 2004. Шаблон:ISBN
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Watson (1926) pp. 87–90
- ↑ Mac an Tàilleir (2003) p. 67.
- ↑ 5,0 5,1 Haswell-Smith (2004) p. 80
- ↑ Watson, Celtic Place-Names, p. 88
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite journal
- ↑ Fraser (2009) p. 71.
