Lea

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Lea , Léa or Leah is a female given name .

Origin and meaning

There are various declarations of origin for the name Lea. Hypotheses arise from language-family and / or religious backgrounds.

Bible

In the Tanakh is Lea ( Hebrew לֵאָה, Le'ah ), the first wife of the patriarch Jacob and the mother of six sons belonging to the ancestors of the twelve tribes of Israel are, and the daughter Dina . There are several views for the derivation of the name Lea / Leah. On the one hand, the name can have the meaning of the Hebrew " (wild) cow " ( Akkadian lītu , littu ( * li'tu ), Arabic lu'lu'a ). Other personal names such as Hulda, Debora, Rahel and probably Rebekka can also be traced back to animal names. This should also be used as a reference to the tribal groups. Lea's sons were (nomadic) cattle breeders, Rachel's sons (sedentary) sheep breeders. Another possibility is the reference to the young cow Anat from Ugarit, to see Leah as the “Canaanite” fertility goddess. The derivation from the root * L'J “to be strong” (Akkadian le'û ) with theophoric element (cf. Akkadian GN-le'i): “[the deity xy] is strong” is also possible.

Derivations from the Hebrew root לאה laʾah ("tire", "try in vain", "go back") are considered folk etymology . It is probably a paronomastic reference to the Hebrew word laʾah.

Leah is said to be derived from Assyrian as the ruler or mistress .

In the Romance- speaking world, the first name Lea can be derived from the Latin meaning for lioness (synonym for Leaena) and is therefore the female counterpart to the male first name Leo .

Tradition and spread

In Dante's Divine Comedy (14th century) Lea is the embodiment of active and fruitful love (Purgatorio, song 27, paragraph 34).

Lea has been one of the most popular female first names since the 1980s and first reached the top 10 on this list in 1996.

name day

March 22nd : Saint Leah of Rome († March 22nd, 384). Their name goes back to the Latin name tradition. In the Catholic Church , the saint is the mother of virgins and the patron saint of widows. Lea's name day on March 22nd is derived from the date of her death.

Name bearers

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Fictional character

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stefan Beyerle: Lea . In: New Bible Lexicon . tape 2 . Zurich / Düsseldorf 1995, p. 594 .
  2. ↑ Noth, M., 1980, Die Israelitischen Personalennamen in the context of the common Semitic naming, Hildesheim / New York, 2nd reprographic reprint of the edition Stuttgart 1928, p. 10
  3. ↑ Mowinckel, S., 1958, "Rahelstämme" and "Leastämme", in: J. Hempel, L. Rost (ed.): From Ugarit to Qumran. Contributions to Old Testament Research. FS O. Eißfeldt. Berlin, p. 123
  4. ↑ Lea. Retrieved October 10, 2017 .
  5. ^ Stefan Beyerle:  LEA. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 1283-1286.
  6. ↑ Esther Keller-Stocker: II. Moses 3: The burning bush. Chapter 2: II. Moses 3: 6-11. theologie-vision.eu - Essays on a holistic theology, February 3, 2010, archived from the original on March 18, 2011 ; accessed on January 26, 2017 .
  7. ↑ lea . Latin Dictionary University of Notre Dame, accessed January 26, 2017.
    lea -ae, f - lioness: occurrence according to authors. Website "Navigium" by Philipp Niederau, archived from the original on June 8, 2015 ; accessed on January 26, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Entry in the Wiktionary (Victionarium Latinum)
  9. ↑ Entry in the name dictionary Nordic Names (English)
  10. ↑ Script of Dante's Divine Comedy
  11. ↑ Entry in the name dictionary
  12. ^ Church pages of the diocese of Münster

literature

  • Stefan Beyerle: Art .: Lea, in: Neues Bibellexikon. Volume II, HN , Zurich, Düsseldorf 1995, Sp. 594-595 ISBN 3-545-23075-9 .
  • Caroli Egger: Lexicon nominum virorum et mulierum . Romæ: Studies, 1963.
  • Catholic Church: Martyrologium Romanum: Gregorii papae XIII jussu editum, Urbani VIII et . Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, 1956.

Web links

Wiktionary: Lea  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations