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Where does “Janek” come from?

Janek (Czech) comes from Czech Jan, from Old Czech [[Jan]], [[Ján]], from Latin Joannes.

Ancestry of “Janek”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1CzechJanJohn
2Old Czech[[Jan]], [[Ján]]—
3LatinJoannes—
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