Names

David

The name of Israel's great king may mean 'beloved', though that is not certain. It travelled through Greek and Latin to English David and to Wales as Dewi, the patron saint, and Dafydd (whence the nickname Taffy); through Arabic Dāwūd to Turkey, Malaysia, Swahili Daudi and Hausa Dauda; and through the Bibles of the Caucasus and Ethiopia to Georgia's King Davit the Builder and Emperor Dawit — and on to Korean Dawit.

Weakest linkCertain

The road to English

From Biblical Hebrew to Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, Turkish

From Biblical Hebrew to Yiddish

From Arabic to Persian, Urdu

From Arabic to Malay, Indonesian

From Arabic to Swahili

From Arabic to Hausa

From Ottoman Turkish to Serbo-Croatian

From Koine Greek to Armenian

From Koine Greek to Georgian

From Koine Greek to Ge'ez, Amharic

From Late Latin to Welsh

From Late Latin to Italian

From Late Latin to Polish

From English to Māori

From English to Tongan

From Late Latin to Welsh, English

From Koine Greek to Old Church Slavonic, Russian

From Biblical Hebrew to Korean

600 BCEBiblical Hebrew

Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.