[Lexicog] Male first name "The blessed one"

[Hayim Sheynin]

Fritz,

To Gottfried/Godfrey should be added French Godfrois just for trinity sake.
To the pattern of Greek names with Theo- should be added many names with the
morpheme  Eu- which means good, well.One more Greek name of approximately
similar meaning is Makarios.

Hayim

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Fritz Goerling <Fritz_Goerling at sil.org>wrote:

>    Hayim,
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> 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),
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> Fürchtegott (Fear-Gott) or old-fashioned.
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> Beracha,
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> Fritz
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> Fritz,
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> 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).
> 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].
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> I hope, this helps,
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> Hayim Sheynin
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> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Fritz Goerling <Fritz_Goerling at sil.org>
> wrote:
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> 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
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> 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.
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> Fritz Goerling
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