02-18-2013, 06:27 AM
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I'm just learning the ins and out of the language, myself, but If were talking Aramaic, not Hebrew,...I say if you want to be extra exact, it would be...
"MarYa" because there is no Heh at the end, and it's not needed for the pronunciation at all. It's purely cosmetic.
"Eshu" because adding the extra English letter "Y", causes one to think that the letter yodh, is pronounced with the "Y" sound, as in Ye or Ya...but, as far as I have heard it pronounced by native speakers, at least today, it has the sound of the letter "E" as in "Easy". That is how it is today...it seems that it was Yeshu at first...as in Yeeeeshu. But now the "Y" sound is silent when spoken.
Shlama,
Chuck
I'm just learning the ins and out of the language, myself, but If were talking Aramaic, not Hebrew,...I say if you want to be extra exact, it would be...
"MarYa" because there is no Heh at the end, and it's not needed for the pronunciation at all. It's purely cosmetic.
"Eshu" because adding the extra English letter "Y", causes one to think that the letter yodh, is pronounced with the "Y" sound, as in Ye or Ya...but, as far as I have heard it pronounced by native speakers, at least today, it has the sound of the letter "E" as in "Easy". That is how it is today...it seems that it was Yeshu at first...as in Yeeeeshu. But now the "Y" sound is silent when spoken.
Quote:by Paul Younan ? Tue Aug 14, 2012 8:07 pm
Shlama Akhay,
In the eastern pronunciation, when you have a Yodh followed by the vowel E, the Yodh becomes silent (or more correctly, it takes on the long EE sound).
This is the case with all names, not just Yeshua>Eshua....YeshaYahu/Eshaya(Isaiah)...Yetzkhaq/Eskhaq(Isaac). Etc.
The "ye" sound, over time, melded into "ee"...you can easily pronounce both and can see the natural transition over time.
+Shamasha
Shlama,
Chuck