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ETYMOLOGY Angelynn Faith Green Zebra

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ETYMOLOGY

Angelynn

Faith

Green

Zebra

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ANGELYNNPronunciation: An-Juh-lynn

Meaning: It means beautiful angel, or messenger of God.

Origin: Greek origin

Gender: Female

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FAITHPronunciation: Fay-th

Meaning: To trust

Origin: Simply from the English word faith, ultimately from Latin fidere "to trust". This was one of the virtue names adopted by the Puritans in the 17th century

Gender: Female

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ZEBRAPronunciation: ZēbrƏ

Definition: Noun 1. an African wild horse with black-and-white stripes and an erect mane. 2. a large butterfly with pale bold stripes on a dark

background, in particular.

Origin: Early 17th century: from Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese, originally in the sense ‘wild horse,’ perhaps ultimately from

Latin equiferus, from equus ‘horse’ + ferus ‘wild

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GREEN

Pronunciation: grēn

Definition: Adjective the color between blue and yellow in the spectrum; colored like grass or emeralds. Noun green color or pigment.

Origin: Subsequent languages wrote it grene (Old Frisian), graenn (Old Norse) andgrown (Dutch). In Old English, it was grene and meant the color green as well as

young and immature