First appearing around 1400, portable stems from the Latin word portare, meaning “to carry.” Used as an adjective, portable describes something you can carry around easily. Used as a noun, it means a smaller, easy-to-carry version of something, like a computer or television.

A word root is a part of a word. It contains the core meaning of the word, but it cannot stand alone. A prefix is also a word part that cannot stand alone. It is placed at the beginning of a word to change its meaning. A suffix is a word part that is placed at the end of a word to change its meaning.

What is the meaning of the name Yan? The name Yan is primarily a female name of Chinese origin that means Pretty Colors / Swallow Bird.

Yann is a French male given name, specifically, the Breton form of “Jean” (French for “John”).

Origin. Along with ane and yen, a Northumbrian form of one, from the Old English ān. An example is “yan, twee, tree” for “one, two, three”.

From Chinese 艳 (yàn) meaning “beautiful, gorgeous” (which is usually only feminine) or 岩 (yán) meaning “cliff, rocks”, as well as other Chinese characters pronounced in a similar fashion.

The Yan surname in Taiwan is mostly spelled as Yen since only until recently has the government approved the use of pinyin romanization of names. The Cantonese romanization of these surnames is “Yim”….

Rén is the Mandarin pinyin romanisation of the Chinese surname written 任 in Chinese character. As of 2008, it is the 59th most common surname in China, shared by 4.2 million people. In 2019 it was the 49th most common surname in Mainland China.

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