Re: OT: Christmas/Holidays
| From: | R A Brown <ray@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 26, 2005, 11:52 |
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Paul Bennett wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 12:30:54 -0500, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:
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>> So what are the holiday greetings in your favorite
>> conlang?
>
>
> Before I even embark on this for Thagojian, I'd like to find out the
> native forms of the name of Jesus Christ in the relevant languages, to
> whit Greek, Aramaic, Hebrew and Coptic.
>
> Greek, I've got as Ιησος Χριστος (Iēsos Khristos), more or less,
More, actually. It is Ιησους Χριστος (Iēsous Khristos)
and I
> think his Aramaic/Hebrew name is something like Yeshua,
Yep - with a long e (and IIRC the u is long also)
Merry Christmas (for the remaining 10.5 days of Christmas :)
and Happy Hannukah and, of course, a Happy New Year
--
Ray
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