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Re: New to the area
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Tue, 11 Jul 2000 14:42:55 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Matthew Miller writes:
> Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote:
> > Shiri Dori <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > Got it? Good.
> > :) very interesting. thanks!
Glad you found it interesting. :-)
> From M-W:
> French Mathieu, from Late Latin Matthaeus, from Greek Matthaios,
> from Hebrew MattithyAh
Yeah... it were the Greeks who were ruling in Israel during the Hanukka story,
when the "famous" Mattityahu (or MattithyAh - however you wanna look at it :-)
was alive. So I guess that's how the name got to Greek... and the rest is
understandable too. :-)
-Shiri
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