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Re: New to the area
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Tue, 11 Jul 2000 03:50:50 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.nelug, Shiri Dori writes:
> (Names in Hebrew almost always have meanings...)
When I see those wooden calligraphy name plate doodads for sale with all the
Biblical names like "Sara" and "Marian" and "David" and "Chris" and "Matt" and
what they mean, I can't resist and I look... Sure enough! They have Erik! Plus
meaning, plus quote from Isaiah! Now I'm pretty sure Eric/Erick is not a
Biblical name. Sure, there are some of the prophets that I will never stay awake
to read through, but, I don't think it's in there.
Well, it probably only demonstrates that mall stalls are not the authorities.
Still, somewhere, like at Cambridge or Harvard or someplace, there must have
been a reform minister re-writing the "name lexicon" so that God-fering English-
spekeing parents lyf would hav something to go by. My good Websters' lists no
certain meaning for 'Erik', but it's not in depth on names.
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| In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Erik Olson writes: <snip> (...) Hmm. Well, in a way you're right. But in another way, not exactly. There's a quite common name in hebrew, Aryeh (= lion). A nickname for people named like that is often Arick. Pretty close to (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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