I’ve always been told that my name means certain things in Irish or French. And I know other people have been told this too (not specifically those languages) but how is this possible? The names aren’t direct translations, and in English (my native language) we don’t really have any names that could be translated into other languages to mean something besides just being a name, as far as I know.
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For example, the name Joshua is derived from the Hebrew “Yehoshua,” which the bible generally interprets as meaning “Yahweh is salvation.”
Michael, from the Hebrew “Mīkhāʼēl” means “Who is like God?”
Alexander is from the Greek “Alexandros” meaning “Defender of Men”
Kevin is from the Irish “Caoimhín” meaning “Handsome birth”
A lot of them have been considered “just names” that we don’t really think of them having some original meaning.
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