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Nancy

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English

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Etymology 1

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Medieval diminutive of Ann and Agnes. Compare Betsy, Patsy.

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Nancy (plural Nancys or Nancies)

  1. A female given name.
    • 1792, Robert Burns, Ae Fond Kiss:
      I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy,
      Naething could resist my Nancy:
      But to see her was to love her;
      Love but her, and love forever.
    • 1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 7, in Pollyanna[1], L.C. Page, →OCLC:
      "And they've got lovely names, too. You'll like their names," sighed Nancy. "They're 'Algernon' and 'Florabelle' and 'Estelle'. I - I just hate Nancy!" "Oh, Nancy, what a dreadful thing to say! Why?" "Because it isn't pretty like the others. You see, I was the first baby, and mother hadn't begun ter read so many stories with the pretty names in them, then."
    • 2003, Ira Pohl, “Nested Classes”, in C# by Dissection: The Essentials of C# Programming, Boston, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 249:
      There are many Nancies and Jerries in the world. They get told apart by a further name, such as Nancy Lovelace, or Jerry Turing.
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Etymology 2

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
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Nancy

  1. A city in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department, Grand Est, north-eastern France.
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Cebuano

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English Nancy.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: Nan‧cy
  • IPA(key): /ˈnansi/ [ˈn̪an̪.s̪ɪ]

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Nancy

  1. a female given name from English [in turn from Ancient Greek]

French

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from English Nancy.

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Nancy f

  1. a female given name from English

Etymology 2

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From the medieval name, Medieval Latin Nanciacum, from Old High German Nanzig.

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Nancy m

  1. Nancy (a city, the prefecture of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department, Grand Est, France)
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Norman

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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Nancy f

  1. a female given name

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Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English Nancy.

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Nancy (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜈ᜔ᜐᜒ)

  1. a female given name from English