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  • From: Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>
  • To: Gene Gardner <g_gardner1234 AT yahoo.com>, b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] etymology opinion question for the list
  • Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:24:50 -0400

Do you mean translated or transliterated? Transliteration doesn't change anything. Transliteration is simply the substitution of one letter for another. It means taking the Hebrew letter gimel, for instance, and putting in its place a "g".

Translation, on the other hand, is taking a word from one language and then using the equivalent word in another language for it. In Hebrew we find the word "shalom" (note- thats a transliteration for shin lamed waw mem). In Hebrew it means- shalom. In English it is usually translated "peace" or "wholeness" or some such thing. If you take "peace" and translate it into Danish you get "fred" or- "fredlig" (for peaceful). If you take "shalom" and translate it into Danish you would have "fred".

But none of this has anything to do with etymology. Etymology is what words originally meant and where they come from.

I hope this helps a bit.

Jim


Gene Gardner wrote:

I have an eytmology opinion question for the list
members. When one language is transliterated into
another language, or through three or four languages,
does the final word still retain the meaning of the
original word?



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