“shannon”

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(“shannon” (“wise river”) is an Irish name, Anglicised from “Sionainn”)

(alternative spellings include Shannen, Shanon, Shannan, Seanan, and “Siannon”)

(the variant Shanna is an ‘anglicisation’ of Sionna (“possessor of wisdom”))

(“Sionainn” derives from the Irish name Abha na tSionainn for the “river shannon”)

(because the suffix ain indicates a diminutive in ‘Irish’, the name is sometimes mistranslated as “little wise one”)

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