From: Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net>
To: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Theophoric Names
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:48:17 -0500
That name was already taken:
Yishmael
Shoshanna Walker
Is it at all possible that "Samuel" could come from *ÝM` *"to hear," and
the
*`ayin* was gradually dropped from the name? Then the name would mean
something like, "El listens."
Benjamin D. Giffone