Where does “Ieova” come from?

Ieova (Tokelauan) comes from English Jehovah, from Hebrew יְהֹוָה, from Hebrew יהוה, from Proto-Semitic *haway- — to be, to become, to fall, to happen.

Ieova (Tokelauan): Jehovah

Definitions

  1. Jehovah

Ancestry of “Ieova”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishJehovahA Jehovah's Witness
2Hebrewיְהֹוָה—
3HebrewיהוהYHWH, Yahweh, Jehovah; God; Yahweh
4Proto-Semitic*haway-to be, to become, to fall, to happen
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