Tanush is the Albanian variant of the Greek given name

Athanasius Athanasius I of Alexandria, ; cop, ⲡⲓⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ ⲁⲑⲁⲛⲁⲥⲓⲟⲩ ⲡⲓⲁⲡⲟⲥⲧⲟⲗⲓⲕⲟⲥ or Ⲡⲁⲡⲁ ⲁⲑⲁⲛⲁⲥⲓⲟⲩ ⲁ̅; (c. 296–298 – 2 May 373), also called Athanasius the Great, ...

, loaned from Latin. Where the fricative /θ/ becomes the stop /t/, this shows that the name passed through Latin before entering Albanian; the Greek-derived equivalent is the name and onomastic element Thanas.Riska, Albert (2013)
"The Christian Saints in the (Micro)toponymy of Albania"
''Anglisticum Journal (IJLLIS)'' vol 2 issue 3. Pages 167-176. Page 172 The Albanian definite form is ''Tanushi''. In Latin, it was written ''Tanusius'', while in Italian ''Tanussio'' and ''Tanusso''. It may refer to: *

Tanusio Thopia Tanusio Thopia or Tanush Thopia ( sq, Tanush Topia 1329–38) was an Albanian count that served Princes of Taranto Philip I and Robert, and Dukes of Durazzo John and Charles. He had domains in Matia. Background Under Philip I, the Kingdom of Al ...

( fl. 1329–38), Angevin Albanian count *

Tanush Thopia Tanush Thopia or Tanusio Thopia (, la, Tanusas Thopius; d. 1467) was an Albanian nobleman and one of the closest collaborators of Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg. Thopia descended from the Thopia family that converted from Orthodox Christianity t ...

(died 1467), nobleman * Little Tanush ( 1423–33), nobleman Tanush is also an

onomastic Onomastics (or, in older texts, onomatology) is the study of the etymology, history, and use of proper names. An '' orthonym'' is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onomastic study. Onomastics can be helpful in data mining, ...

element and appears in the following Albanian language toponyms: * Tanuše ( sq, Tanushaj), an Albanian village of the

Upper Reka Upper Reka ( mk, Горна Река, Gorna Reka; ), meaning "Upper river", is a geographic and ethnographic subregion of the broader Reka region of western North Macedonia, including settlements within the upper left portion of the Municipali ...

region,

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* Tanuševci ( sq, Tanushë), an Albanian village,

Čučer-Sandevo Municipality Čučer-Sandevo Municipality ( mk, , sq, Çuçer) is a municipality in northern part of North Macedonia. '' Čučer-Sandevo'' is also the name of the village where the municipal seat is found. It is located in the Skopje Statistical Region. Ge ...

, North Macedonia

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