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Re: Zane - varient of John?
in reply to a message by Dawn
Zane can be a Venetian diminutive of Giovanni (the Italian form of John). Read here:
http://www.behindthename.com/bb/fact/3035130
http://surnames.behindthename.com/bb/sur/4301735
However I suspect the pronunciation would be very different to how it is pronounced in English.Zane is also a Latvian feminine name, a form of Zuzanna. Again, the pronunciation is different.
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