Biblical Hebrew Forum

[George Athas <George.Athas AT moore.edu.au>]

Jim,

This is no more plausible than proposing that the country of Norway has no 
roads, because 'r' is often not pronounced distinctively in certain languages 
related to Norwegian, and so the etymology of the name 'Norway' might reflect 
the phrase 'No Way', in which 'way' is a synonym for 'road', and therefore 
Norway is the country of No Roads, which makes sense seeing that much of its 
northern coastline is broken by fjords, which are very discouraging to road 
builders. The opposite of Norway is obviously the Greek island of Rhodes.



Regards,

GEORGE ATHAS
Moore Theological College (Sydney, Australia)
www.moore.edu.au