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<div>Fritz,</div>
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<div>To Gottfried/Godfrey should be added French Godfrois just for trinity sake.</div>
<div>To the pattern of Greek names with Theo- should be added many names with the</div>
<div>morpheme Eu- which means good, well.One more Greek name of approximately</div>
<div>similar meaning is Makarios.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Fritz Goerling <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Fritz_Goerling@sil.org">Fritz_Goerling@sil.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Hayim,</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Yes, male first names of Greek origin with the first syllable Theo- exist in a number of European languages. You mention 'Bog-' for Russian and 'Gott-" for German. In German and English there are number of these first names which are probably rare today like "Gottfried/Godfrey" (God-peace), Traugott (Trust-God),</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Fürchtegott (Fear-Gott) or old-fashioned.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Beracha,</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Fritz,<br><br>Of course most or all Jewish languages (live or extinct, they are about two dozen) have name Barukh or Mevorakh. Many Semitic languages have equivalents of Hebrew Barukh or Arabic Muba(r)rak. Nevertheless most of Biblical names are theophorical by nature (pay attantion for initial Yo- or Yeho- or suffix-like -el, -ahu).<br>
It seems to me that in some European languages the semantic equivalents are of slightly different etimology: a type of "given by God" [Theodor(e), Fe(o)dor, Bogdan] or "loved by God" [like Gottlieb].<br>
<br>I hope, this helps,<br><br>Hayim Sheynin </span></font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Fritz Goerling <<a href="mailto:Fritz_Goerling@sil.org" target="_blank">Fritz_Goerling@sil.org</a>> wrote:</span></font></p>
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<p style="BACKGROUND: white"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I'd be interested in knowing in which languages the male first name "The blessed one" exists, either from a Semitic origin like Baruch, Barak, Barack </span></font></p>
<p style="BACKGROUND: white"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">or Latin origin like Benedict, Benedikt, Benedetto, Benito, Benoît or in Slavic, Asian, African or whatever languages that do not have a form of the name borrowed and transliterated from the Semitic root BRK or Latin Benedictus.</span></font></p>
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