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Hebrew

ʿIbrî was what outsiders called the Israelites — perhaps 'one from across (the river)'; through Aramaic, Greek, Latin and French it became the English name of the people and their language, while the Mishnah's ʿIbrît became Ivrit, Arabic took ʿibrānī on to Turkish, and Russian made it its ordinary word for a Jew.

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The road to English

From Biblical Hebrew to Mishnaic Hebrew, Modern Hebrew

From Aramaic to Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, Turkish

From Koine Greek to Old Church Slavonic, Russian

From Latin to Italian

From Latin to Spanish

From Latin to German

From Old French to French

600 BCEBiblical Hebrew

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