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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The eddoes or taro, Colocasia antiquorum.

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  • proper noun A female given name.

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Borrowed in the twentieth century from the Russian pet form Таня (Tánja) of Татьяна (Tat'jána, "Tatiana").

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