Spanish to english
2006-09-13 19:18:15 · 3 answers · asked by Don MEGA 1977 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
"James" OR "Jacob". All these names apparently go back to the Hebrew Biblical name Ya`akob, though the Greek translation, in which it comes out"Yakobus".
There is some debate about how we got to "Diego"... it may be by means of a shortening form of "Yacobus" as "Iago" as in "Santiago" (Sant ='saint' + Iago), which was then redivided as "San Diego". The Latin word Didacus (teacher) may have influenced the form "Diego".
For more on this and on how we ended up with "James", see
http://spanish.about.com/od/historyofspanish/a/diego.htm
2006-09-13 23:16:58 · answer #1 · answered by bruhaha 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
James
2006-09-14 02:21:17 · answer #2 · answered by Kuji 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
James ... as weird as that sounds since they're not similar
2006-09-14 02:27:18 · answer #3 · answered by Mariposa 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋