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Cian is an established Irish personal name derived from a word meaning ancient or enduring. Irish myth also records Cian as the father of Lugh, giving it a genuine literary and mythological history. These are separate types of evidence: one concerns the underlying lexical sense, the other a traditional bearer. The compact one-syllable sound has become familiar beyond Ireland.
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