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Where does “uJehova” come from?

uJehova (Zulu) comes from English Jehovah, from Hebrew יְהֹוָה, from Hebrew יהוה, from Proto-Semitic *haway-.

uJehova (Zulu): Jehovah

Definitions

  1. Jehovah

Ancestry of “uJehova”, step by step

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