romiosini wrote:Does anyone know Greek and Russian? Or Arabic? I've been wondering lately how some names get translated. Usually Russian names are practicly almost like the greek names just with "-yi" at end. Like Vasily (Russian), Basil (English), Vasilios (Greek).
Not always, many names that end in -os or -us this is just dropped for Russian, Such as Nicephorus becomes Nikifor in Russian and Nectarios becomes Nektary.
Iakovos is an interesting one that people often ask when reading the Orthodox New Testament, since James is written as Iakovos. But when you start seeing what Jesus' name is in Hebrew, Greek and Arabic, you start to get the bigger picture. (Yeshua - Joshua)