Re: [tied] ANNA, ELISABETH and variants

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 11557
Date: 2001-11-27

That's true, as long as the history of given names is discussed with this kind of purpose in mind (shedding light on more general linguistic questions) rather than for its own sake.
 
Piotr
 
 
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From: markodegard@...
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Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] ANNA, ELISABETH and variants

The phonological permutations of these names can be quite on-topic. For example, getting from the Hebrew original to English James, Spanish Iago, French Jacques, Italian Giacomo etc., does take some interesting explaining. With biblical and saint names, we *know* what the original form of the name was, and thus, have testimony to older phonological systems.