2041: Where's the '-hu' in Elijah (or Eliyahu) Jul 17, 2020

There are some biblical names 'Elijah' or 'Isaiah' that end with -ah in English but look totally different in Hebrew. Eliyahu (אליהו) or Yeshayahu (ישעיהו‎) both have an final syllable that's totally different from the English but are similar to each other. The reason for the discrepancy is because of the Greek; they both got a Greek nominative ending -s as in Elias and Ēsaias respectively, which was dropped off when the named were Latinized and Anglicized later on. Also, in the case of 'Isaiah' Greek doesn't have a sound which approximated SH, hence the discrepancy there.

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