Names

Matthew

The tax collector turned evangelist bore a short form of Mattityāhū, 'gift of Yahweh'. It reached English through Greek Matthaios, Latin and Norman French, and branched into Matteo, Mateo, Mateus, Matvey, Mateusz, Máté, Finnish Matti, Armenian Mattʿēos, Georgian Mate, Indonesian Matius and Hawaiian Makaio.

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The road to English

From Late Latin to Italian

From Late Latin to Spanish

From Late Latin to Polish

From Old French to French

From Late Latin to Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese

From Late Latin to Middle High German, German

From Late Latin to Hungarian

From Koine Greek to Armenian

From Koine Greek to Georgian

From Koine Greek to Byzantine Greek, Modern Greek

From English to Hawaiian

From English to Māori

From Koine Greek to Old Church Slavonic, Russian

From Late Latin to Finnish

From Late Latin to Indonesian

400 BCEBiblical Hebrew

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Matthew

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