Re: aranold

On 2009-01-27, mm <NOPSAMmm2005@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<snip>
**Most Hebrew yuds became J's, certainly at the start of a word, but I
don't know why.

Probably from Greek or Latin, which didn't have a J. Wikipedia has
Biblical Greek pronouncing the city name as "Hierousalem," spelled
"Ierousalem" (in Latin letters). The I was used both as vowel and
consonant, so when they discovered the J, they probably spelled it
Jerousalem but still pronounced it as an I/Y. Then when we started
pronouncing J as we do now (which not all of Europe does, ja?), Jerusalem
got carried along with it.

Wikipedia also mentions:
The Greek forms Hierousalem and Hierosolyma, and the Latin form
Hierusalem indicate an interpretation of the first syllables as the
Greek word hieros meaning "holy".

And "-shalayim" to "-salem" might be a Hebrew to Aramaic translation.
So, we go from Hebrew to Aramaic to Greek to Latin to English to get
to how we pronounce and spell the city name now.

(References are from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Jerusalem#Jerusalem )

(And if I got any/most/all of that wrong, I'd appreciate corrections
as the topic interests me as well.)

Tim

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