Words that come from Biblical Hebrew “מָשִׁיחַ”

390 words across 80 languages descend from Biblical Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ — including Christ, Christian, Christianity, Christopher, Christine, Christology, Christchurch, messiah.

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English (86)

Italian (25)

French (18)

Irish (14)

Spanish (13)

Latin (11)

Portuguese (10)

Middle English (10)

Danish (9)

Esperanto (9)

Dutch (8)

Ancient Greek (7)

German (7)

Cebuano (6)

Middle Dutch (6)

Greek (6)

Romansch (6)

Romanian (6)

Old Armenian (6)

Old English (6)

Swedish (5)

Latvian (5)

Russian (4)

Norwegian (4)

Manx (4)

Aromanian (4)

Old French (4)

Norman (4)

Norwegian Nynorsk (4)

Old Irish (4)

Japanese (3)

Greenlandic (3)

Icelandic (3)

Polish (3)

Armenian (3)

Friulian (3)

Norwegian Bokmål (3)

Old Norse (3)

Serbo-Croatian (3)

Catalan (2)

Albanian (2)

Korean (2)

Aramaic (2)

Yiddish (2)

Middle French (2)

Burmese (2)

Central Franconian (2)

Tok Pisin (2)

Old Portuguese (2)

Late Latin (2)

Neapolitan (1)

Chamicuro (1)

Asturian (1)

Sicilian (1)

Galician (1)

Classical Nahuatl (1)

Marshallese (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Tzotzil (1)

Faroese (1)

Gothic (1)

Czech (1)

Konkani (1)

Welsh (1)

Coptic (1)

Thai (1)

Haitian Creole (1)

Persian (1)

Scottish Gaelic (1)

Breton (1)

Cornish (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Indonesian (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Middle High German (1)

Koine Greek (1)

Vulgar Latin (1)

Ecclesiastical Latin (1)

Old High German (1)

Medieval Latin (1)

Words from Biblical Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ — 390 descendants | Etymology Explorer