Re: Same name (was Re: Brithenig-heads)

On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 15:39:19 +0200 taliesin the storyteller
<taliesin@...> writes:
> Iohannes comes from hebrew Jochanan doesn't it? That's what "name
> your
> baby"-books tend to claim at least.
.

I think that's what it is....Yohhanan.
Same name as Hhananya, Elhhanan, and Hhananeil, depending on where you
put the "God" part :-) .

> Other names from the same... Jan, Jon, Jo, Hans, Ian, Sean, Ivan,
> Janne,
> Yvonne, Jane, Jean, Jeanette, Joan, Hanna, Henny, Anne... does any
> other
> name have *that* many localized variants?
> t.
.

Hanna probably comes from the Hebrew name Hhana.  Samuel's (Shemu'eil)
mother in the Bible, if i remember correctly.

I always liked the name _Eilialhenel_, myself ;-) .


-Stephen (Steg)
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