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Re: Names - a plea

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Friday, January 26, 2001, 7:18
Eric Christopherson wrote:
My middle name is Allen, whose meaning I do not know,
>and my last name has pretty much already been translated (in the guise of >Christophe).>
I've read somewhere that Allen/Alan/ etc. French Alain, harks back to the Alani, one of the tribes that made up Atilla the Hun's horde and hung around after his defeat.... Maybe.... I think they were Indo-European from the Persian area....? And again, IIRC, the Ossetes of southern Russia/Caucasus are thought to be descendants.