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Tanna

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Etymology

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Tanna f

  1. A taxonomicgenus within thefamilyCicadidae –cicadas of Asia.
  2. (archaic) A taxonomicgenus within thefamilySalticidae – certainjumping spiders, renamed in 2006 toAraneotanna.

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English

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Etymology 1

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Named by British explorerJames Cook in 1774, said to be fromKwameratana(earth).[1]

Proper noun

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Tanna

EnglishWikipedia has an article on:
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  1. An island inTafea,Vanuatu.
    • 2006, Ted Freeman,Doctor in Vanuatu, Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific,→ISBN, page78:
      The next mission station for us to visit was on Paama Island, where Alison Todd, an Australian nursing sister, was stationed. Alison is tall and very definite in her manner. She had worked on the island ofTanna and also at PMH before going to Paama.

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  1. ^SICOL: Historical and descriptive studies. (1998). Australia: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, p. 167

Etymology 2

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FromHebrewתַּנָּא(tannā), fromAramaic.

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Noun

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Tanna (pluralTannasorTannaim)

  1. Any of therabbinicsages whose views are recorded in theMishna, from approximately 10–220 CE.

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