Re: OT: Christmas/Holidays
| From: | Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 26, 2005, 20:39 |
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R A Brown wrote:
> and I
> > think his Aramaic/Hebrew name is something like Yeshua,
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> Yep - with a long e (and IIRC the u is long also)
It is usually יֵשׁוּעַ - in a more or less standard scientific
transliteration - yēšûª‘ - where ē and û are long, ª is an off-glide due to
the following gutural ‘ (i.e. [ʕ] in IPA) which was anyway already silent in
this position in those days.
> Merry Christmas (for the remaining 10.5 days of Christmas :)
> and Happy Hannukah and, of course, a Happy New Year
more exactly, חֲנֻכָּה - ḥănukkā, that may be rendered practicly as smth
like Chanukah or Hanukkah or half a dozen other ways, but only with one N.
Thank you for the greetings, and the same to you!
-- Yitzik
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