What does the name yawn mean?
What does the name yawn mean? Yawn comes from gionian in Old English, "open the mouth wide." Is yawn a name? Americanized spelling of German Jahn. Where does the name yawn originate? This French and English surname of YAWN was from a medieval given name which is ultimately from the Hebrew male name YONA, meaning 'Dove'. In the book of the Bible which bears his name, Jonah was appointed by God to preach repentance to the city of Nineveh, but tried to flee instead to Tarshish. What does Yunning mean? being or standing wide open; gaping: the yawning mouth of...