Jesus
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Root
Ishe
lord, chief, master
From Proto Semitic y sh ayin to Shona Ishe lord
- Confidence
- 75/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- JesusEnglish
The consensus position
English Jesus comes via Latin Iesus from Greek Iēsous, the Greek form of Hebrew-Aramaic Yēšūaʿ, a shortened form of Yehōšūaʿ ‘YHWH is salvation’ from Proto-Semitic y-š-ʕ ‘save’.
The working behind this.
The full descent — 9 links from the attested form down to the root — the segment-by-segment correspondences, the phonological breakdown and the case for the derivation are behind an account.
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