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From: Einde O'Callaghan <einde.ocallaghan@planet-interkom.de>
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Subject: Re: 'Antani'
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 01:55:12 +0200
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Cgao Coma wrote:
> Hi
>
> I recently jumped into this ancient english term, ANTANI,
> I don't know the meaning, neither the origin.
> It should concern the tuscan city of Florence (X-posted), but not for sure.
>
> Can anybody help, and explain, thanks.
>
Since this native English speaker has never ever heqard this word I
suspect taht it isn't an English word at all - certainly the spelling
doesn't look English at all. My English dictionary doesn't seem to have
heard of the word either. And neither does the Merriam-Webster On-Line
dictionary.
Perhpas if you do a Google search on the term you might find some
examples that will provide some enlightenment. I suspect that it's a
name - perhaps a variant of Antony or Anthony. St. Anthony (Antonio in
Italian) came from Padua, I believe, which is not too far away from
Florence.
Einde O'Callaghan
Regards
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