| Title: | Ayyala: A zoonomastically motivated Hebrew female personal name, and how semantic reinterpretation and other factors affect the current first name |
| Author: | Ephraim Nissan |
| Publication: | Numele și numirea. Actele Conferinței Internaționale de Onomastică. Ediția a II-a: Onomastica din spațiul public actual, p. 606 |
| ISBN: | 978-606-543-343-4 |
| Editors: | Oliviu Felecan |
| Publisher: | Editura Mega, Editura Argonaut |
| Place: | Cluj-Napoca |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Abstract: | This study examines the background of the female names Ayyala in Modern Hebrew and Pre-Islamic Jewish Aramaic Yalta (literally, ‘doe’), and Biblical and Modern Hebrew Tsivya (‘she-gazelle’, but in Eastern Europe ‘roe doe’) – cf. New Testament Tabitha (Aramaic for ‘she-gazelle’) – in their historical and comparative contexts (e.g., in relation to Modern Arabic Ghazala, and to Hellenistic and Roman-age Greek Dorcas). The background is complex. The denotation of Hebrew names for ‘doe’, ‘gazelle’, and ‘roedeer’ varied historically and geographically. Does and gazelles are evocative across cultures, in Hebrew a perceived red doe running in the sky motivated a metaphor for the break of dawn, and in Jewish homiletics e.g. Moses’ mother was metaphorised as a gazelle. |
| Key words: | first names motivated by animal names, Hebrew Ayyala (Aramaic Yalta) and Tsivya, Arabic Ghazala, Greek Dorcas, Doe vs. Gazelle |
| Language: | English |
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Citations to this publication: 1
| 0 | Malka Muchnik | Reconstructing a cultural heritage: The return of biblical personal names in Israel | Onoma, 55, 267-285 | 2020 | pdf html |
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