Tannis

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Gender Feminine
Usage English (Rare)

Meaning & History

Variant of Tanis. This was used by Canadian author L. M. Montgomery in her short story 'Tannis of the Flats' (1920), where it belongs to a Métis girl of Cree descent. Montgomery may have intended it to be a derivative of a Cree word meaning "daughter" (cf. Danis).
Added 4/2/2010 by Polly Names
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