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

At 12:42 13.4.2000 +0300, Dan Sulani wrote:
> >
> >> Would anyone (read: Steg :-)  know the original form & meaning of
> >> Elizabeth.  IIRC its Russian counterpart has /s/, not /z/.  True?
> >
> >> /BP
> >>  B.Philip Jonsson  <mailto:bpj@...>bpj@netg.se
> >.
> >
> >All i can think of is _elisheva`_, which means something like "my god
> >swears/has_sworn/will_swear" from what i can tell.
>
>Good thinking, Steg. My  English dictionary
>  (Webster's New World , 1957 [you'd think it was time already
>to get a new one! :-) ])
>has the following derivation of "Elizabeth":
>  (L = Latin, Heb = Hebrew  lit = literally)
>     "L. Elisabeth; Heb. elisheba' , lit., God is (my) oath"
What's the -t(h) then?  The feminine ending?




/BP

 B.Philip Jonsson  <mailto:bpj@...>bpj@netg.se
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