Re: Jewish names
| From: | Danny Wier <dawier@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, July 30, 2000, 2:11 |
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--- BP Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
> At 19:57 28.7.2000 -0400, Steg Belsky wrote:
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> >"Moishe" is a distinctively Ashkenazic form.
>
> I wonder if it is, since it is Moisé in Italian. Last time this was
> up Ray
> said the Septuagint spelling is Mo:yse: (mu-omega-upsilon-sigma-eta)!
I think the Greek rendering is Moÿsês (Moy"se:s), where there's a
dieresis over the upsilon and the third vowel is eta. (So Modern Greek
would have Moisis.
The Arabic version of the name is _mu:sah_, or is the u short?
117.
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