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[Facts] Re: Tatjanu?
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I think it's just an inflected form of the name Tatiana. In Slavic languages nounds have several forms(as opposed to just singular and plural in English) depending on how they are used in a sentence.For example, these are some forms Tatiana would take in Polish depending on it's use and place in a sentence:Tatiany
Tatianie
Tatiano
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Yes, Tatjanu is the genitive form of the name Tatjana in Croatian, Serbian and some other Slavic languages. I have never seen a male form of this name, so doubt it would have many hits on Google.Could you give me the links you found so that I can be sure? The ones I found all refer to the genitive of Tatiana/Tatjana.I also found that the male name Tatianus is a form of a Roman name Tatius.
The only male Tatjanus I've found is a horse: http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/tatjanus

This message was edited 7/29/2009, 7:18 AM

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I don't have links because my information comes from my knowledge of Polish.If it helps I did try to search for Tatjanu as a name and didn't find anything. I do plenty of info for men of ancient names that had Tatianus as part of their name though.
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OhNo, that part referred to the original poster saying she found Tatjanu on some Slavic language pages. Sorry for the confusion:-)
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