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• Japanese name — Yamada Tarō (山田太郎), a stereotypical Japanese name (male), equivalent to John Smith in English. Jane Smith would be Yamada Hanako (山田花子). Japanese names ( …   Wikipedia

• Germanic name — Contents 1 List of Germanic given name elements 1.1 Prefixes 1.2 Suffixes …   Wikipedia

• r̥k̂Þo-s —     r̥k̂Þo s     English meaning: bear     Deutsche Übersetzung: “Bär”     Note: (or r̥k̂ s o s besides r̥k̂ to s?)     Material: O.Ind. r̥kṣa m. “bear” (in addition a new fem. r̥k̂ṣī “Bärin”) = jAv. arša , common O.Ind. ĝh > kṣ : jAv. ĝh …   Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary