The story
- Latin · derived fromIācōbus
- Old French · derived fromquin“monkey”
- English todayQuin
* Irish: variant of Quinn, from Irish Ó Coinn (“descendant of Chief”). * English (of Norman origin): nickname from Old French quin (“monkey”). * French: from a short form of Jaquin, pet form of Jacques, from Latin Iācōbus (English Jacob).
Words from the same roots
LatinIācōbus all →
JamesIagoJagoYago
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.