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1997 book by Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (subtitled A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years in Britain) is a 1997 transdisciplinary
Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel
American scientist, historian, and author (born 1937)
scientist, historian, and author. He has written hundreds of scientific and popular articles and books, most notably Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997), which received
Jared_Diamond
Ancestors of the Japanese people
variety of both language families. Jared Diamond, the author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, suggested that immigrants from the Korean peninsula initiated the
Yayoi_people
2005 book by Jared Diamond
collapses to which environmental problems contribute. My previous book (Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies), had applied the comparative method
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse:_How_Societies_Choose_to_Fail_or_Succeed
Region of the Middle East
ISSN 1350-7486. S2CID 6707201. Diamond, Jared (March 1997). Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1st ed.). W.W. Norton & Company.
Fertile_Crescent
Heuristic in folk statistics
Karenina principle was popularized by Jared Diamond in his 1997 book Guns, Germs and Steel. Diamond uses this principle to illustrate why so few wild animals
Anna_Karenina_principle
Theory that a society's development is predetermined by its physical environment
Jared (1997). Guns, germs, and steel. Jonathan Cape. pp. 1. ISBN 978-0-224-03809-6. Diamond, Jared (1997). "Afterword". Guns, germs, and steel (2017 ed.)
Environmental_determinism
American actor and director (born 1941)
Smartest Guys in the Room and the National Geographic-produced PBS documentary based on Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel. He also narrated an episode
Peter_Coyote
2011 book by David Deutsch
continents outlined in his book Guns, Germs, and Steel. For Deutsch, the sustained creation of knowledge could have arisen anywhere and led to a beginning of infinity;
The_Beginning_of_Infinity
1532 battle during the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire
Jared Diamond Guns, Germs And Steel, Random House 2013 (p. 76), states that the Inca personnel were purely Atahualpa's personal attendants and nobles, whereas
Battle_of_Cajamarca
2025 book by Luke Kemp
and Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens." Ed Simon, in a review for The New York Times, contrasted it with Jared Diamond’s 1997 bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel
Goliath's_Curse
Rare neurodegenerative disease caused by prions
Science and the Sorcery (Siamese Films, 2010) Diamond J.M. (1997). Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies. New York: W.W. Norton. p. 208.
Kuru_(disease)
2014 book by Yuval Harari
Wells) Guns, Germs, and Steel (Jared Diamond) The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution (Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending)
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Sapiens:_A_Brief_History_of_Humankind
Practice of humans eating other humans
practiced ... for culinary appreciation". Jared Diamond suggests in Guns, Germs, and Steel that "protein starvation is probably also the ultimate reason why
Human_cannibalism
Species of flowering plant in the family Papaveraceae
India". dor.gov.in. Retrieved 2022-11-17. Jared Diamond (1997). Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. W W Norton & Co. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-393-03891-0
Poppy
Spicy condiment made of chili peppers and garlic
(Fortune China). Retrieved 21 December 2023. Diamond, Jared (1999). Guns, Germs and Steel. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 126. Rao, Vidya (3 June 2021). "What
Chili_crisp
Woodworking tool with the cutting edge perpendicular to the handle
ISSN 1174-9202. JSTOR 43264617. Wikidata Q58629011. Diamond, Jared (1997). Guns, Germs, and Steel. New York: Norton. p. 67. ISBN 0-393-31755-2. "Carving tools & technologies
Adze
Practice of eating the flesh of a human being from the same community
iatrogenicity and zoonoses". Infection, Genetics and Evolution. 26: 303–12. doi:10.1016/j.meegid.2014.06.010. PMID 24956437. Diamond JM (1997). Guns, germs, and steel:
Endocannibalism
How location is linked to wealth
Jared Diamond was inspired to write his Pulitzer Prize-winning work Guns, Germs, and Steel by a question posed by Yali, a New Guinean politician: why were
Geography_and_wealth
Evolution of societies
not only to Carneiro but also to Jared Diamond, and particularly his 1997 book Guns, Germs, and Steel. Diamond, who explicitly opposes racist evolutionary
Sociocultural_evolution
Continent
Atmospheric and Vegetation Feedbacks", Archived 7 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Science Daily. Diamond, Jared. (1999) Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates
Africa
Video game series by Guerrilla Games
collaborated with anthropologists and researched the formation of tribal cultures. Jared Diamond's books Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997) and Collapse: How Societies
Horizon_(video_game_series)
2012 book by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
Book Award, Honorable Mention The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Why_Nations_Fail
Ethnic group from Arusha Region of Tanzania
(2×): CITEREFMarlowe2010 (help) *Diamond, J. (1997). "Chapter 6". Guns, germs and steel: the fates of human societies. New York, NY: Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-03891-0
Hadza_people
Group of Native Americans
(1997), Guns, Germs, and Steel, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, p. 374, ISBN 0-393-31755-2 Robert K. Hitchcock, and Charles Flowerday. “Ishi and the California
Yana_people
Intense armed conflict
Retrieved 31 May 2012. Diamond, Jared, Guns, Germs and Steel Strickland, Ashley (24 September 2024). "Thousands of bones and hundreds of weapons reveal grisly
War
Israeli historian and philosopher (born 1976)
writing. At a Berggruen Institute salon, Harari said that Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel "was kind of an epiphany in my academic career. I realised that
Yuval_Noah_Harari
American classicist and military historian (born 1953)
determinist explanations such as those put forth by Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997).[non-primary source needed] In a 2007 article on the Media
Victor_Davis_Hanson
Roman Farming (Cornell University Press) Diamond, Jared (1999). Guns, Germs, and Steel (Paperback ed.). New York: W.W. Norton. pp. 123–128, 134–142. ISBN 0-393-31755-2
History_of_agriculture
2017 video game
with anthropologists and researched the formation of tribal cultures. Jared Diamond's books, Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997) and Collapse: How Societies
Horizon_Zero_Dawn
Animals and Plants Under Domestication. London: John Murray. OCLC 156100686. Diamond, Jared (1997). Guns, Germs, and Steel. London: Chatto and Windus.
Domestication_of_vertebrates
West's economic growth vs other advanced regions
Divergence and Great Convergence The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy Guns, Germs, and Steel The Rise and Fall of
Great_Divergence
Emergence of religious behavior discussed in terms of natural evolution
Kleptocracy". Guns Germs and Steel. New York, NY: Norton. p. 277. ISBN 978-0-393-03891-0. Norenzayan, A.; Shariff, A. F. (2008). "The origin and evolution
Evolutionary origin of religion
Evolutionary_origin_of_religion
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. W.W. Norton & Co. (ISBN 978-0-099-30278-0). Also published with the title Guns, Germs and Steel:
Economy_of_Africa
http://fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/1/777777190168/ Jared Diamond, Guns, germs and steel. A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years, 1997. Wikimedia
Ancient_Egyptian_agriculture
1976 book by Richard Dawkins
Reality; Jared Diamond's melding of history with biological thought in Guns, Germs and Steel..." Weinberg included it on his list of the 13 best science books
The_Selfish_Gene
Author bibliography
(1997). Guns, Germs, and Steel. W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-03891-0. Williams A (2003). Blanchard M (ed.). A Reader's Companion to Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs
Jared_Diamond_bibliography
Circular component rotating on an axle
2307/275722. JSTOR 275722. S2CID 163472346. Diamond, Jared (1999). Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: Norton. p. 237. ISBN 978-0-393-31755-8
Wheel
2019 French novel by Laurent Binet
Pizarro with a force of fewer than 200 soldiers. Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel also served as a source of inspiration, particularly a "specific
Civilizations_(novel)
2009 non-fiction book by various authors
and subject matter of Jared Diamond's book Collapse and, to a lesser extent, Guns, Germs, and Steel. Begun as a concept at a 2006 special meeting of the
Questioning_Collapse
One of Earth's seven main divisions of land
Australia. Black Inc. ISBN 9781760640446. Jared Diamond. (1997). Guns, Germs, and Steel. Random House. London. pp 314–316 Bowler J.M.; Johnston H.; Olley
Australia_(continent)
Genus of flightless birds
Gale Group. ISBN 0-7876-5784-0. Diamond, Jared M. (March 1997). Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. W.W. Norton & Co. ISBN 0-393-03891-2
Cassowary
Canadian historian (1917–2016)
In 1997, he disagreed with the central thesis of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel for overlooking the importance of human "cultural autonomy" in determining
William_H._McNeill
1080/00224497409550828. S2CID 143393896. Diamond, Jared (1997). Guns, Germs and Steel. W.W. Norton. p. 210. ISBN 84-8306-667-X. John Noble Wilford (15
History_of_syphilis
17th-century high-pressure cooker
thermodynamics Papin’s steam digester, Science and Society – Picture Library. Diamond, Jared (1997). Guns, Germs and Steel. London: Chatto & Windus. A Treatise
Steam_digester
Book by Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending
attempted this, for example in Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel. But, according to Kelleher, Cochran and Harpending go one better than Diamond. He goes
The_10,000_Year_Explosion
Epidemiological history book by William H. McNeill
assertions and as Eurocentric, and some arguments have since been undermined, such as McNeill's rejection of a New World origin for syphilis. Guns, Germs and Steel
Plagues_and_Peoples
Period between prehistory and the medieval era
the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From?. Eerdmans. ISBN 978-0-8028-0975-9. Diamond, Jared (1999). Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human
Ancient_history
African ethno-linguistic grouping
Carleton: The Living Races of Man (1965) Diamond, Jared (1999). Guns, Germs, and Steel. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-31755-8.. Hogan
Khoisan
Region
1038/s41467-019-11213-w. PMC 6736881. PMID 31506422. Diamond, Jared; Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies; p. 103; ISBN 0-393-03891-2 Andebrhan
East_Africa
Class of animals with milk-producing glands
November 6, 2016. Diamond JM (1997). "Part 2: The rise and spread of food production". Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies. New York: W.W. Norton
Mammal
Termination of a species' lineage
and the Theory of Punctuated Equilibria, 1986, Heinemann ISBN 0-434-22610-6 Diamond, Jared (1999). "Up to the Starting Line". Guns, Germs, and Steel.
Extinction
Diamond, Jared (1999). Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: Norton. Dodds, E. R. (1964). The Greeks and the Irrational. Berkeley
Timeline_of_ancient_history
2019 book by Jared Diamond
Washington Post wrote, "In the same way that his previous and far more rigorous work, Guns, Germs, and Steel, suffered from an excessive reliance on geography
Upheaval_(book)
Crops native to the New World
Neolithic founder crops Timeline of agriculture and food technology Diamond, Jared (1999). Guns, Germs and Steel. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 126. Smith, A.F
New_World_crops
early humans and the associated development of cooking was the spark that radically changed human evolution. Texts such as Guns, Germs, and Steel suggest that
Technology_and_society
Ancient Vietnamese bronze drum
Drums, Nationalism and History – le Minh Khai's SEAsian History Blog (And More!)". Diamond, Jared (1997). Guns, Germs, and Steel – The Fate of Human
Dong_Son_drum
Concept of foreign species aiding colonization by disrupting local ecology
Press: 1993, 2nd edition 2004. ISBN 978-0521546188. Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel. W.W. Norton & Company: 2005. ISBN 978-0393061314. Sharon Kirsch
Ecological_imperialism
Pre-Columbian cultural area in the Americas
Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-28503-9. Diamond, Jared (1999). Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. ISBN 978-0-393-31755-8
Mesoamerica
American author (born 1974)
scientist and author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond, wrote of Life List, Except for one thing, this book would rate as a great adventure novel and fictional
Olivia_Gentile
Culinary traditions of the Mediterranean basin
(1997). Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years. Viking Press. ISBN 978-0-09-930278-0. Essid 2012, p. 51 and passim
Mediterranean_cuisine
Concept for economic growth without environmental damage
New York: Viking Books. ISBN 1-58663-863-7. Diamond, J. (1997). Guns, Germs and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. ISBN 0-393-06131-0
Eco-economic_decoupling
Selective breeding of plants and animals to serve humans
Prehistory, Volume 8: South and Southwest Asia. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. Diamond, Jared (2005) [1997]. Guns, Germs, and Steel: A short history of everybody
Domestication
1521 conquest of the Aztec capital by the Spanish Empire and rival indigenous tribes
Mexico. Boston: Beacon (Diamond 1999: 210), Diamond, Jared M. 1999 Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies. New York: Norton. Robinson, Charles
Fall_of_Tenochtitlan
Subject in population genetics
other and a later founder effect diminished the internal variety of both language families. Jared Diamond, the author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, suggested
Genetic and anthropometric studies on Japanese people
Genetic_and_anthropometric_studies_on_Japanese_people
Human transition from foraging to settlement
Un polissoir en plein air. BSPF, vol. 63. Diamond, Jared (1997). Guns, Germs, and Steel. New York: Norton Press. ISBN 978-0-393-31755-8. Nadel, Dani; Weiss
Neolithic_Revolution
Island in the Pacific Ocean
massacre of women and children highlights poor policing, gun influx". ABC News. 11 July 2019. Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of
New_Guinea
2010 book by Ian Morris
(such as state formation) and in downplaying cultural explanations in favor of materialist explanations. Guns, Germs, and Steel Ian Morris (2010). "Social
Why_the_West_Rules—For_Now
London: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-387-19844-X. Diamond, Jared (1997). Guns, Germs and Steel. New York: W.W. Norton. p. 210. ISBN 0-393-03891-2. "Special Topic:
History_of_condoms
Atmospheric and Vegetation Feedbacks", Archived 7 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Science Daily. Diamond, Jared. (1999) Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates
History_of_Africa
Ethnic group in Indonesia
her childhood growing up with them. The second is Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, where the group is used as an example of a band type society. The
Fayu_people
Establishment and development of settlements by people or animals
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005 Jared Diamond, Guns, germs and steel. A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years, 1997. Ankerl
Colonization
York: Free Press. ISBN 978-0-684-82768-1. Diamond, Jared (1997). Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-03891-0
Domestication_of_horses
American anthropologist and activist (1961–2020)
compared Debt to Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel and James C. Scott's The Art of Not Being Governed for its "vast scope and implication". He expressed
David_Graeber
Linguistic issues with the Book of Mormon
[self-published source?] As Diamond established earlier throughout Guns, Germs, and Steel, this has been the established pattern throughout history; hunter-gatherer
Linguistics and the Book of Mormon
Linguistics_and_the_Book_of_Mormon
Genus of grass cultivated for grain
[1997]. Guns, Germs and Steel. Vintage Books. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-099-30278-0. Grundas, S.T. (2003). "Wheat: The Crop". Encyclopedia of Food Sciences and Nutrition
Wheat
1998 book by David Landes
well as facts, and therefore of saying things that might turn out to be wrong." Great Divergence Guns, Germs, and Steel The Rise and Fall of the Great
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
The_Wealth_and_Poverty_of_Nations
Art of arranging type
(1997), "13: Necessity's Mother: The evolution of technology", Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Society, W. W. Norton & Company, ISBN 978-0-393-03891-0
Typography
1919–1920 book by H. G. Wells
World (Wells book) Guns, Germs, and Steel (Jared Diamond) Wells, H.G. (1920). The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind. Vol. I (1 ed
The_Outline_of_History
Culinary traditions of Pakistan
October 2023. Retrieved 15 January 2024. Jared Diamond (1997). Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years. Viking
Pakistani_cuisine
Theory of large, discontinuous changes
Theories. New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1968, pp. 101–106. Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel. The Fate of Human Societies. New York, NY:
Critical_juncture_theory
1935 popular science book by Hans Zinsser
Plagues and Peoples and Guns, Germs and Steel, echoed this idea. Written for a lay audience, Rats, Lice and History showcased Zinsser's wry and literate
Rats,_Lice_and_History
Category of geographical feature
Sea Mississippi River Sierra Madre Diamond, Jared (March 1997). Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-03891-2
Natural_barrier
Island in the southeastern Pacific
and that the population declines on Rapa Nui can be well attributed to the very mechanism described by Diamond in another of his books, Guns, Germs and
Easter_Island
1963 book by William H. McNeill
interrelation and cultural diffusion rather than a flat description of western history's effect on other civilizations. Great Divergence Guns, Germs, and Steel McNeill
The_Rise_of_the_West
American author (born 1952)
Friedman's The World Is Flat and Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel). Dag Tuastad, senior lecturer of Middle East and Africa at the University of Oslo
Robert_D._Kaplan
American scientist (1947–2001)
resources. As can be seen in his review of Diamond's best-seller Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies in 1999, Posey would have biological
Darrell_A._Posey
Extinction of large animals at the end of the last Ice Age
Press. pp. 824–62. ISBN 978-0-8165-1100-6. Diamond, J. (1997). Guns, germs, and steel; the fates of human societies. New York: Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-31755-8
Late_Pleistocene_extinctions
Study of geography's effects on politics
University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-60000-3. Diamond, Jared (1997). Guns, Germs, and Steel. Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0-224-03809-6. Kovacevic, Filip (2014)
Geopolitics
Writing system invented by Sequoyah to write the Cherokee language
on May 2, 2015. Retrieved May 22, 2014. Diamond, Jared (1999). Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: Norton. p. 228. ISBN 0393317552
Cherokee_syllabary
Philosophy opposing war or violence
Diamond, Jared (1997). Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W.W. Norton. p. 53. "Peace, War and Philosophy" by F. S. Northedge
Pacifism
Device for birth control and STI prevention
London: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-0-387-19844-6. Diamond J (1997). Guns, Germs and Steel. New York: W.W. Norton. p. 210. ISBN 978-0-393-03891-0. "Special
Condom
Civilizations of South America's Andes Mountains
Ltd. pp. 28–32. ISBN 978-0-631-17677-0. Diamond, Jared (1999), Guns. Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., pp. 83–113
Andean_civilizations
Use of physical force or psychological power with the intent to inflict harm
his books Guns, Germs and Steel and The Third Chimpanzee posits that the rise of large-scale warfare is the result of advances in technology and city-states
Violence
Country in the Caribbean
19 July 2013. McAlister 1984, p. 164 Diamond, Jared M. (1998). Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. c: W.W. Norton & Co. ISBN 978-0-393-03891-0
Cuba
1997 book by Jared Diamond
relationships and culture. While sex originally evolved for reproduction, in humans it serves other purposes like bonding, emotional connection, and even stress
Why_Is_Sex_Fun?
Island in Solomon Islands
Islands Polynesia Polynesian outlier Solomon Islands Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel (Norton) 1997, p. 59. "Anuta Island". Solomon Islands Historical
Anuta
Migration, and Colonial Control, Leiden: Brill, 2014. Jared Diamond, Guns, germs and steel. A short history of everybody for the last 13'000 years, 1997. De
History_of_human_migration
Country in Oceania
Retrieved 16 July 2022. Updated Aug 22, 2018 Diamond, J. (March 1997). Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-03891-2
Papua_New_Guinea
Ongoing extinction event caused by human activity
ISBN 978-1-4081-5725-1. Diamond, Jared (1999). "Up to the Starting Line". Guns, Germs, and Steel. W.W. Norton. pp. 43–44. ISBN 978-0-393-31755-8. Wagler, Ron (2011)
Holocene_extinction
GUNS GERMS-AND-STEEL
GUNS GERMS-AND-STEEL
Surname or Lastname
Scottish
Scottish : name of a clan associated with Caithness, derived from the Old Norse personal name Gunnr (or the feminine form Gunne), a short form of any of various compound names with the first element gunn ‘battle’.Scottish : sometimes an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Dhuinn ‘son of the servant of the brown one’ (see Dunn). (According to Woulfe a name of the same form also existed in Sligo, Ireland.)English : metonymic occupational name for someone who operated a siege engine or cannon, perhaps also a nickname for a forceful person, from Middle English gunne, gonne ‘ballista’, ‘cannon’, ‘gun’. The term originated as a humorous application of the Scandinavian female personal name Gunne or Gunnhildr.
Surname or Lastname
English and German
English and German : topographic name from Old English land, Middle High German lant, ‘land’, ‘territory’. This had more specialized senses in the Middle Ages, being used to denote the countryside as opposed to a town or an estate.English : topographic name for someone who lived in a forest glade, Middle English, Old French la(u)nde, or a habitational name from Launde in Leicestershire or Laund in West Yorkshire, which are named with this word.Norwegian : habitational name from any of three farmsteads so named, from Old Norse land ‘land’, ‘territory’ (see 1 above).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Abbots Ann in Hampshire, named for the stream that runs through it, which is most probably named with an ancient Welsh word meaning ‘water’.
Surname or Lastname
English and German
English and German : nickname for someone with a deformed hand or who had lost one hand, from Middle English hand, Middle High German hant, found in such appellations as Liebhard mit der Hand (Augsburg 1383).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname from German Hand ‘hand’ (see 1).Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Flaithimh (see Guthrie), resulting from an erroneous association of the Gaelic name with the Gaelic word lámh ‘hand’. It is used as an English equivalent for several other names of Gaelic origin too, e.g. Claffey, Glavin, and McClave.Dutch : from a variant of hont ‘dog’, ‘hound’, either a derogatory nickname, or a habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a dog.
Female
Finnish
Estonian and Finnish pet form of Greek Hanna, ANU means "favor; grace."
Female
Spanish
Portuguese and Spanish form of Latin Anna, ANA means "favor; grace."Â Compare with another form of Ana.
Surname or Lastname
English, Scottish, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
English, Scottish, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : topographic name for someone who lived on patch of sandy soil, from the vocabulary word sand. As a Swedish or Jewish name it was often purely ornamental.Dutch and Belgian : reduced form of Van den Sand(e), Van den Zande, a habitational name from places such as Zande in West Flanders or various minor places named with zand ‘sand’.English and Scottish : from a short form of Alexander.French : from a Germanic personal name, Sando.
Female
Danish
, compassion, grace; and, prayers.
Female
Serbian
(Bulgarian and Serbian Ðна): Bulgarian and Serbian form of Greek Hanna, ANA means "favor; grace."
Female
Bulgarian
(Ðна), compassion, grace; and, prayers.
Female
Norwegian
Danish and Norwegian form of Greek Hanna, ANE means "favor; grace."
Girl/Female
Australian, Dutch
Loving and Musical
Boy/Male
Hindu
The sound
Boy/Male
German, Spanish
Famous Land
Male
English
 English short form of Latin Augustus, GUS means "venerable."
Male
English
Unisex pet form of English Andrew and Andrea, ANDY means "man; warrior."
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, Dutch, English, Gaelic, German, Greek, Latin, Scandinavian, Scottish
Form of Gustave; Staff of the Gods; Sole; Any Choice; Moslem Teacher; Worthy of Respect
Surname or Lastname
English, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
English, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a maker of hoops and bands, etc., from Middle English band, bond, Middle High German, Middle Low German bant, German Band denoting something used for tying or binding: ‘hoop’, ‘metal band’, ‘fetter’, ‘shackle’.Old spelling of the Dutch cognates Bant, Bande, from Middle Dutch bant ‘band’.
Female
Thai/Siamese
Thai name A-GUN means "grape."
Male
Spanish
Spanish form of Roman Latin Germanus, GERMÃN means "from Germany."
GUNS GERMS-AND-STEEL
GUNS GERMS-AND-STEEL
Boy/Male
Hindu
Awakened, Lord Buddha
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, English, Greek
Avenged; Vindicated; Combination of Deana and Dina
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
Ascetical
Boy/Male
Welsh
Young warrior.
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Mercy for All
Girl/Female
Indian, Tamil
Beautiful Eyed
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Marathi, Telugu
Lord Vishnu
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim, Sindhi
Resembling
Female
Vietnamese
Vietnamese name HANH means "has good conduct."
Girl/Female
Tamil
A bond, One who glues together
GUNS GERMS-AND-STEEL
GUNS GERMS-AND-STEEL
GUNS GERMS-AND-STEEL
GUNS GERMS-AND-STEEL
GUNS GERMS-AND-STEEL
n.
A block of wood used in mounting and dismounting heavy guns.
conj.
If; though. See An, conj.
a.
Without germs.
n.
Reproduction by means of germs.
n.
One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc.
a.
Destructive to germs; -- applied to any agent which has a destructive action upon living germs, particularly bacteria, or bacterial germs, which are considered the cause of many infectious diseases.
n.
Tracts of land consisting of sand, like the deserts of Arabia and Africa; also, extensive tracts of sand exposed by the ebb of the tide.
adv.
Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or, contracted, aa), / ij., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces.
n.
That which is to develop a new individual; as, the germ of a fetus, of a plant or flower, and the like; the earliest form under which an organism appears.
n.
Cannon; great guns; ordnance, including guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., with their equipment of carriages, balls, bombs, and shot of all kinds.
n.
Same as Chase gun, esp. in terms bow chaser and stern chaser. See under Bow, Stern.
n.
An engraver of gems for rings and other ornaments.
a.
A minor subdivision of a tribe, among American aborigines. It includes those who have a common descent, and bear the same totem.
n.
A black bird of tropical America, the West Indies and Florida (Crotophaga ani), allied to the cuckoos, and remarkable for communistic nesting.
n.
A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various means. Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called small arms. Larger guns are called cannon, ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc. See these terms in the Vocabulary.
n.
That from which anything springs; origin; first principle; as, the germ of civil liberty.
v. t.
To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish.