Names

John

Hebrew Yōḥānān, 'Yahweh has been gracious', named John the Baptist and the apostle John and became the most-scattered name in Christendom: Jean, Juan (the Filipino everyman), Giovanni, Hans, Ivan, Jan, Ioane, Yohannes and Hovhannes. Celtic forms came back into English as Ian, Evan and Shane, and missionaries carried it to Hawaii and New Zealand as Keoni and Hone and to Chinese Yuēhàn and Japanese Yohane. Arabic Yaḥyā may or may not be the same name.

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The road to English

From Late Latin to Old French, French

From Late Latin to Spanish, Tagalog

From Late Latin to Italian

From Late Latin to Portuguese

From Late Latin to Middle High German, German

From Koine Greek to Old Church Slavonic, Old East Slavic, Russian

From Biblical Hebrew to Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, Turkish

From Biblical Hebrew to Syriac, Arabic

From Koine Greek to Byzantine Greek, Modern Greek

From Koine Greek to Armenian

From Koine Greek to Georgian

From Koine Greek to Ge'ez, Amharic

From Old Church Slavonic to Serbo-Croatian

From Old Church Slavonic to Romanian

From Late Latin to Polish

From Late Latin to Hungarian

From Late Latin to Dutch, Afrikaans

From Late Latin to Old Norse, Icelandic

From Late Latin to Swedish, Finnish

From Late Latin to Old Irish, Scottish Gaelic, English

From Late Latin to Welsh, English

From Anglo-Norman to Irish, English

From English to Hawaiian

From English to Māori

From English to Tongan

From Arabic to Hausa

From Koine Greek to Mandarin Chinese

From Koine Greek to Japanese

600 BCEBiblical Hebrew

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