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For example, "Messiah" in hebrew is translated to "Messias" in Greek. Is this a common trend?

2007-07-23 02:39:42 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel Europe (Continental) Greece

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The majority of male names and surnames end with an "s". Otherwise they would sound strange and would not be incorporated in the Greek everyday language.
Still, there are several christian names which have not been altered, as Adam, Seraphim, Daniel, etc (all of Jewish origin).
All surnames of Italian (and some of Spanish) origin get a final "s" and become Greek, as they end with a vowel.
Though, surnames of German, English or Armenian origin remain unchanged, as their last letter is a consonant and no final "s" can be added because of phonetic reasons.

2007-07-23 05:08:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5 4

yes its very common, names or even words in Greek never end in vowels,except s (sigma in greek).

2007-07-23 03:30:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

you write 's' or sigma, sigma is the name of the letter s in greek.

yes many greek words finish with an s especially the male names. all this use of s in the greek language gives a unige and strange sound to the the people who don't speak greek

2007-07-23 02:44:32 · answer #3 · answered by Hoplite 3 · 4 3

Male names or words do. Female names usually end with a or e (pronounced as in me)

2007-07-23 04:26:35 · answer #4 · answered by cpinatsi 7 · 2 1

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