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Yeshua vs. Eshua
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Paul Younan Wrote:Shlama Akhay,

For instance, my last name "Younan" is the Imperial Aramaic version of the Hebrew "Yona" ("Jonah", or "Dove"). In Imperial Assyrian Aramaic, there was a tendency to append an "n" to masculine names that ended with an "ah" sound. Therefore, you have the Aramaic "Younan" for the Hebrew "Youna."

I'm certainly no linguist, but had never heard of "Younan" being connect to Yona as a last name.
I did a google search on the name, and came up with:

Quote:younan:
Turkish, Iranian, and Muslim generally: ethnic name for a Greek. It is ultimately derived from Greek Ion ???Ionian???, the tribe of Greeks with whom the Persians had first contact. This term was subsequently borrowed into Hebrew and Arabic, and later came to be used in the Muslim world at large to denote a Greek.

Just thought I would add this little bit of interesting factoid...
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Yeshua vs. Eshua - by Paul Younan - 03-24-2004, 03:20 PM
[No subject] - by Gentile - 03-25-2004, 02:22 PM
Yeshua vs. Eshua - by george - 03-29-2004, 02:38 AM
[No subject] - by Gentile - 03-30-2004, 10:01 AM
Re: Yeshua vs. Eshua - by tomkocherry - 12-20-2007, 08:01 PM
Re: Yeshua vs. Eshua - by The Orthodox Jew - 01-20-2009, 06:27 AM
Re: Yeshua vs. Eshua - by Paul Younan - 01-20-2009, 03:22 PM
Re: Yeshua vs. Eshua - by Karl - 01-21-2009, 10:42 PM
Re: Yeshua vs. Eshua - by Paul Younan - 01-21-2009, 11:13 PM
Re: Yeshua vs. Eshua - by Lars Lindgren - 01-21-2009, 11:56 PM
Re: Yeshua vs. Eshua - by Paul Younan - 01-22-2009, 04:12 AM
Re: Yeshua vs. Eshua - by Lars Lindgren - 01-22-2009, 12:05 PM
Re: Yeshua vs. Eshua - by Karl - 01-22-2009, 03:51 PM

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