Words that come from Old French “Jannes”

130 words across 43 languages descend from Old French Jannes — including Jane, Jean, Jan, Jenny, Janet, jeans, Janice, Janie.

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English (44)

French (12)

Turkish (7)

Vietnamese (5)

German (5)

Cebuano (3)

Polish (3)

Italian (3)

Russian (3)

Japanese (3)

Chinese (3)

Finnish (3)

Dutch (2)

Norman (2)

Limburgish (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Portuguese (2)

Danish (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Irish (1)

Latvian (1)

Karelian (1)

Armenian (1)

Hebrew (1)

Norwegian (1)

Swedish (1)

Hindi (1)

Spanish (1)

Persian (1)

Thai (1)

Middle English (1)

Indonesian (1)

Azerbaijani (1)

Czech (1)

Tagalog (1)

Welsh (1)

Abkhaz (1)

Yiddish (1)

Arabic (1)

Hijazi Arabic (1)

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (1)

Tibetan (1)

Amharic (1)