Etymograph

English

Isaac

Isaac comes from Ancient Greek Ἰσαάκ.

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἸσαάκIsaák
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEIsaac
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500Ysaac
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1611Isaac

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history not traced here.

Lineage

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἸσαάκIsaák
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEIsaac
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500Ysaac
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1611Isaac

Earliest quotation: 1611, The Holy Bible, London: […] Robert Barker: “And Abraham circumciſed his ſonne Iſaac, being eight dayes…”

The story

Explained in Genesis as referring to his mother Sarah’s laughing when she was told she would have a son at her old age. The verb is masculine, however, perhaps due to its use as a boy’s name.

Every English word from Ancient Greek Ἰσαάκ

Today it means

name The son of Abraham and Sarah, father of Esau and Jacob, from whom the Hebrew people trace their descent.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Ancient Greek Ἰσαάκ / Isaac

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