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in reply to a message by LC Dempsey
I've just done a google search for Lowan (because of your post on the Opinions board, which I've answered), and all I can discover is that it's a relatively uncommon Irish surname. I can't find a meaning for it at all.
The "fighting chicken" meaning sounds highly unlikely, but stranger things have happened. If you tell us where it comes from, we may be able to confirm or debunk it.
The "fighting chicken" meaning sounds highly unlikely, but stranger things have happened. If you tell us where it comes from, we may be able to confirm or debunk it.
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http://www.pickbabynames.com/Australian-Aboriginal/L/Lowan.html
idk lol thats the site i was on. and i swore i saw it on another site too.
idk lol thats the site i was on. and i swore i saw it on another site too.
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Well, that's rather different to "fighting chicken", don't you think?
Now that you've given us the correct information, I can confirm that yes, Lowan is the word for mallee fowl in the Wemba-Wemba language, spoken in the north of Victoria, Australia. Note that it's a word, and was not used as a name in Wemba-Wemba. If Lowan as a first name has been used in Australia it'll have been used by non-Aboriginal Australians who have borrowed the word from Wemba-Wemba.
However, I have never personally heard it used in Australia, and I still think it's far more likely that the use of Lowan as a first name has come from the Irish surname, not the Wemba-Wemba word.
Now that you've given us the correct information, I can confirm that yes, Lowan is the word for mallee fowl in the Wemba-Wemba language, spoken in the north of Victoria, Australia. Note that it's a word, and was not used as a name in Wemba-Wemba. If Lowan as a first name has been used in Australia it'll have been used by non-Aboriginal Australians who have borrowed the word from Wemba-Wemba.
However, I have never personally heard it used in Australia, and I still think it's far more likely that the use of Lowan as a first name has come from the Irish surname, not the Wemba-Wemba word.
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ok well i can't find the exact site that said fighting chicken, but my bet would be that a mallee fowl is a chicken-type bird that fights lol i'm not crazy it's just what i read. its not like i made it up. but i like to think the name is irish because I'm irish and I just really like the name. in fact i just came up with it one day when i was thinking of the name logan and then i searched it online to see if it was a real name, and it is. just a rare one. but thanks to everyone for helping me!
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