To: "John W. Leys." <eliyahu5733 AT gmail.com>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] IaBe = YHWH or IaBe = Jove?
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 20:01:24 +0300
> >Well, I do not press this idea; it might be wrong. But Greek borrowing of
> >this basic word from Latin is strange.
> >
> I didn't say that it was borrowed from Latin, but rather that both deus
> and Ζευζ likely have a common root in Indo-European.
That means that Zeus is meaningless in Greek. If, therefore, Zeus is related
to Zvaoth, then the direction of borrowing is from meaningful to
meaningless, from Hebrew to Greek.