Re: Russian names (was: Re: A perfect day...)
| From: | Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 2, 2000, 17:27 |
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:35:46 -0600, Matt Pearson
<jmpearson@...> wrote:
>Joel is not an especially rare name over here. It's actually fairly
common.
>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.
Mon, 31 Jan 2000 20:30:39 +0100 Raymond Brown
<ray.brown@...> wrote:
>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.
Yes, exactly. _Ioil_ - three syllables, stress on the last one.
Names taken from Old Testament are relatively uncommon in Russia (except
among Russian Jews). So, no 'specifically Russian' form different from
Church Slavonic, and no traditional short form.
Basilius.