י־ה־ו־ה

y-h-w-h “the divine name (short forms Yah, Yahu, Yeho-)”

Not a verbal root but Israel's name for its God, whose short forms begin or end dozens of Hebrew names: Elijah, Isaiah, Joshua, John, Matthew, Tobias, Zechariah, Jeremiah, Jehu. Hallelujah ends in it, and Jehovah is the name itself, read with borrowed vowels. Its own etymology (perhaps from h-w-y 'to be') is unsettled.

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Today14 of 14 words have reached English

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Words from this root 14

hallelujahBiblical Hebrew → Koine Greek → Late Latin → Middle English → English
JehovahBiblical Hebrew → Medieval Hebrew → Medieval Latin → New Latin → English
ElijahBiblical Hebrew → Koine Greek → Late Latin → Middle English → English → English
IsaiahBiblical Hebrew → Koine Greek → Late Latin → English
JoshuaBiblical Hebrew → Koine Greek → Late Latin → Middle English → English → English
JesusBiblical Hebrew → Koine Greek → Late Latin → Middle English → English
JohnBiblical Hebrew → Koine Greek → Late Latin → Anglo-Norman → Middle English → English → English
jackBiblical Hebrew → Koine Greek → Late Latin → Middle Dutch → Anglo-Norman → Middle English → Middle English → English
jockeyBiblical Hebrew → Koine Greek → Late Latin → Middle Dutch → Anglo-Norman → Middle English → Scots → English → English
MatthewBiblical Hebrew → Koine Greek → Late Latin → Old French → Middle English → English
TobiasBiblical Hebrew → Koine Greek → Late Latin → English
ZacharyBiblical Hebrew → Koine Greek → Late Latin → English
jeremiadBiblical Hebrew → Koine Greek → Late Latin → French → English
jehuBiblical Hebrew → Koine Greek → Late Latin → English

Relatives outside the atlas

Biblical Hebrew	יָהּ	yāh	“Yah, short form of the name (as in hallelujah)”
Biblical Hebrew	יְהוֹנָתָן	Yəhônāṯān	“Jonathan, 'Yahweh has given'”
Biblical Hebrew	נְתַנְיָהוּ	Nəṯanyāhû	“Nethaniah, 'Yahweh has given'”
Biblical Hebrew	אֲדֹנִיָּה	ʾĂḏōniyyāh	“Adonijah, 'my lord is Yah'”
Aramaic	יהו	Yhw	“Yahu, the form used by the Jews of Elephantine”