Etymograph

English

Moshe

Moshe may come from Egyptian msj ‘to give birth to’.

  1. Egyptianc. 3200 BCE–600 CEmsj‘to give birth to’uncertain
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2009Moshe

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Egyptianc. 3200 BCE–600 CEmsj‘to give birth to’uncertain
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2009Moshe

Earliest quotation: 2009, Filipe, CNN: “The Samson Option states that Moshe Dayan gave the…”

The story

Transliteration of Hebrew משה (moshé), sometimes conjectured to derive from Egyptian msj (‘to give birth to’), a common element in Egyptian names of the form ‘[name of deity] is the one who bore him’.

Every English word from Egyptian msj

Today it means

name A male given name from Hebrew, of Jewish usage, equivalent to English Moses.

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

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