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Re: Russian names (was: Re: A perfect day...)

From:Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Monday, January 31, 2000, 19:30
At 11:35 am -0600 31/1/00, Matt Pearson wrote:
>Vasiliy Chernov wrote: > >>>My first name is Joel, which would be "Yul" in Russian, wouldn't >>>it? >> >>Do you know its etymology? I thought first of Yul(i)y, a rather common >>name, but it goes back to Julius. If your name doesn't, then it must be >>some really rare name; Ioil?
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>And no, it has no connection to Julius, as far as I know. It comes from >a Hebrew name, which means something like "Yahweh is (the only) God". >Joel was a minor prophet, I think; one of the books of the Old Testament >was named after him.
Spot on - nothing to do with the Roman Julius - Joel was one of the minor prophets. In the Greek Septuagint his name is rendered iota-omega-eta-lambda So, yes, if the Church Slavonic adopted the Byzantine form - and one assumes it did - then it would be Ioil, as Vasily says. Ray. ========================================= A mind which thinks at its own expense will always interfere with language. [J.G. Hamann 1760] =========================================