[Lexicog] Male first name "The blessed one"

[Hayim Sheynin]

Fritz,

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].

I hope, this helps,

Hayim Sheynin

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Fritz Goerling <Fritz_Goerling at sil.org>wrote:

>    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
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> Fritz Goerling
>  
>
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