02-18-2013, 04:27 AM
This'll probably start some interesting debate. There are two words that I am trying to figure out how I would transliterate. These two happen to be "Mem-Resh-Yod" and "Yod-Sheen-Waw-Ayin".
MRY- Master Yah
Should this be transliterated simply as "Marya" or "MarYa" (as Janet Magiera did) or could this also be transliterated as "MarYah" (as David Bauscher and Andrew Gabriel Roth do). The problem with this pronunciation is that there is no "Heh" in order to completely justify it, but if you add the "H" while transliterating, it makes it more clear to someone not familiar with Syriac that this is a reference to the name "Yahweh". So would "MarYah" be an acceptable transliteration?
YSWA- Jesus
I am stuck between "Yeshua", "Yeshu", "Eshoo", and "Yeshu`". "Yeshua" seems to be more popular among translators (including Paul Younan, a native speaker of Aramaic), but "Eshoo" would appeal to members of the Church of the East. "Yeshu" is viewed as the more accurate transliteration by David Bauscher and by the late John Wesley Etheridge (who used "Jeshu", an anglicized form of "Yeshu"). I choose "Yeshu`" as a possibility, because "ayin" is not accurately represented in any English letter, therefore would probably be left best as an apostrophe (`). What say ye, brethren?
MRY- Master Yah
Should this be transliterated simply as "Marya" or "MarYa" (as Janet Magiera did) or could this also be transliterated as "MarYah" (as David Bauscher and Andrew Gabriel Roth do). The problem with this pronunciation is that there is no "Heh" in order to completely justify it, but if you add the "H" while transliterating, it makes it more clear to someone not familiar with Syriac that this is a reference to the name "Yahweh". So would "MarYah" be an acceptable transliteration?
YSWA- Jesus
I am stuck between "Yeshua", "Yeshu", "Eshoo", and "Yeshu`". "Yeshua" seems to be more popular among translators (including Paul Younan, a native speaker of Aramaic), but "Eshoo" would appeal to members of the Church of the East. "Yeshu" is viewed as the more accurate transliteration by David Bauscher and by the late John Wesley Etheridge (who used "Jeshu", an anglicized form of "Yeshu"). I choose "Yeshu`" as a possibility, because "ayin" is not accurately represented in any English letter, therefore would probably be left best as an apostrophe (`). What say ye, brethren?