Pawell:
As to the pronunciation “Jehovah;” as I brought out earlier, the origin of the word Jehovah used to be attributed to Petrus Galatinus.
In the Hebrew language, “There are, generally speaking, two main pronunciations: the Ashkenazi, or German, originated by central and Eastern European Jews and carried to all countries to which those Jews have emigrated (Western Europe, America, etc.); and the Sephardi, or Spanish, used by Jews of Spanish or Portuguese stock in Europe and America and also by Jews from Oriental countries.
It is a well known fact, that the Ashkenazi Jews had changed the pronunciation of the jod to that of the “y” sound. However, the Sephardic Jews have kept the original pronunciation of the jod as “j.”
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