From names to wordsScripture

Eden

The garden of Genesis — Hebrew ʿĒden, probably 'luxuriance, delight' — became English shorthand for any paradise, as in Shakespeare's 'this other Eden'; Arabic made it the 'Gardens of ʿAdn', Hebrew and Yiddish kept gan eden as the everyday word for paradise, and the Romance languages turned 'an eden' into an ordinary noun.

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The road to English

From Biblical Hebrew to Arabic, Persian

From Biblical Hebrew to Yiddish

From Biblical Hebrew to Modern Hebrew

From Late Latin to French

From Late Latin to Spanish

From Late Latin to Italian

From Koine Greek to Old Church Slavonic, Russian

600 BCEBiblical Hebrew

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