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Toponymy Simplified
Toponymy is the study of place-names, including their origins, meanings, usage and types. Toponymic research is based on etymological, historical, and geographical information. It investigates the origin, meaning, usage, and types of toponyms (place names). This research draws upon linguistic analysis, historical records, and geographical context to understand how and why places were named the…
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Pre-Greek
“Pre-Greek” refers to the languages spoken in Greece before the arrival of Greek-speakers.
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Simon Peter: Meaning & Etymology
“Σίμων/Simon”, “Κηφᾶς/Cephas” and “Πέτρος/Peter” are the New Testament’s three different names for St. Peter. These names have long given rise to numerous scholarly theories and explanations. Here is an anthroponymic approach to the meaning and etymology of Simon, Peter and Cephas.
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Semitic and Indo-European words
Semitic and Indo-European languages are generally considered two distinct language families. However, they share a large number of cognate words, which sometimes leads to debate about a potential, very distant, common origin. Indo-European: Greek, Latin, Romance languages, Germanic, Celtic, Balto-Slavic, Indo-Iranian, among others. Semitic languages: Akkadian, Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Ge’ez, Mandaic, Old-South-Arabian, Phoenician, Syriac, Tigre, Tigrinya,…
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Hebrew: meaning and etymology
It is generally agreed that (ăpăr), in ancient Hebrew, denotes dust and similar material.
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Meaning of Qatar & Qatraye
The name “Qatraye” is derived from “ܩܵܛܹܪ/qāṭīr” which means: “Line”.
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Identifications of biblical sites
No biblical sites can be identified with high degree of certainty, only few identification can be considered proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. [01] One reason is that Emperor Constantine, the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity, sent his mother Helena, in 320s, to travel around to identify Biblical sites. Helena (questionably) “discovered”…