Tegan
See also: tegan
English
editEtymology
edit- (female): 20th-century coinage from Welsh tegan (“toy, darling”).
- (surname): Transferred use of Irish Ó Tadhgáin, a surname.
- (male): From Teagan, from a diminutive of Irish Tadhg.
Proper noun
editTegan (plural Tegans)
- A female given name from Welsh.
- 1999, John Kenneth Muir, A Critical History of Doctor Who on Television[1], page 339:
- Janet Fielding's Tegan also says goodbye to Doctor Who in "Resurrection of the Daleks," and her farewell has an abrupt air to it. […] Tegan simply has a temper tantrum and says she has seen too much violence. She then runs off into a warehouse and disappears.
- 2007, Christine Jones, Mariard, Volume 1: The Gifting, page 68:
- The lad felt most honoured when Tegan called him her best friend.
- 2011, Catherine Powell, Safeguarding And Child Protection For Nurses, Midwives And Health Visitors[2], page 126:
- Following a restless and difficult day, Tegan, who is 11 weeks old, falls asleep cuddled up with her mother Carys on the sofa.
- A male given name from Irish. Alternative form of Teagan.
- 2008, Lara Adrian, Midnight Awakening, published 2013, unnumbered page:
- 'But,' Tegan prompted, pulling Elise toward him like he wanted something firm to hold onto. 'But it was empty.'
- A surname.
- 2006, Report of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court and in the Court of Appeals of the State of Idaho, page 14:
- Their next door neighbor told Ott she had seen Tegan the night before the report was made and he did not have any bruises on his head.
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