Re: Hi from Ukraine

On Fri, 23 Nov 2001 11:58:50 +0200 "Y.Penzev" <yitzchaq@...> writes:
> Well, my Jewish name is Yitzchaq, the Russian equivalent for it is
> Isaak, the Ukrainian one is Isak. But (!) NB: For a number of reasons
in
> the official documents they call me with a RUSSIAN name Igor'
> :-))
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Hey, at least it starts with the same letter!  :-) (sort of)
I knew someone in highschool whose Hebrew name is Efrayim, but his
English name is Zack!  (which of course comes from a completely different
Hebrew name, Zekharya)
I'm taking Arabic 101 this semester, so i asked my professor about the
Arabic translation of my Hebrew name.  Having found in a Hebrew-Arabic
dictionary that _tzvi_ = _ghazaal_, i asked him about it but he said that
no one is named _ghazaal_ (or pretty much any animal names) and that at
most it could almost be a Bedouin lastname, _ghazaalii_.  But then i
happened across in one of our textbooks the actual cognate form of
_tzvi_, _Zabii_, but i doubt that that's a name either.  Except for the
city of Abu Dhabi, which i personally find a very funny-sounding name
with the emphatic /D/ and pharyngealized-backed /a/.


-Stephen / Tzvi-hersh (Steg)
"old linguists never die - they just come to voiceless stops."

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