יאַן
‘Jan, St. John’
יאַן
'Jan, St. John'
ETYMOLOGY
Beider suggests that the name was borrowed from Old Polish, before the 16th c., when the vowel of Jan was still long /aː/. The vowel merged with A₂ and had the corresponding different realizations in Yiddish dialects (e.g., "yūn" in CY).