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

On 13 April Steg wrote:

>On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 20:43:41 +0200 BP Jonsson <bpj@...> writes:
>> At 11:16 12.4.2000 -0500, Matt Pearson wrote:
>> >Nik Taylor wrote:
>> >
>> > >Names seem to be subject to largely random changes, especially in
>> forms
>> > >that originate as nicknames.  Margaret, for instance, has given
>> us
>> > >Maggie and Marge (pretty simple changes), as well as Peggy.
>> Apparently
>> > >a change from "a" to "e", and a denasalization/devoicing.
>
>> >Probably these changes happened in stages:
>> >
>> >Margaret > Maggie > Meg > Peg > Peggy
>> >
>> >Matt.
>
>> 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"

Dan Sulani

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