英语词汇four-letter word的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

four-letter word. The four-letter word, as it is called, is YHWH, which in the Bible is the name of God. Many pious Jews will neither speak nor write this sacred name. Since this “ineffable name” was too sacred to use, the scribes added to it the vowels of the word Adonai (Hebrew for Lord), indicating that readers should say “Adonai,” not “YHWH.” Yahweh is a form of it that probably is its pronunciation, and Jehovah is a modern reconstruction of the name. It is the oldest four-letter word under taboo in history. In Greek it is rendered as Tetragrammaton.

词汇	four-letter word
词源	four-letter word. The four-letter word, as it is called, is YHWH, which in the Bible is the name of God. Many pious Jews will neither speak nor write this sacred name. Since this “ineffable name” was too sacred to use, the scribes added to it the vowels of the word Adonai (Hebrew for Lord), indicating that readers should say “Adonai,” not “YHWH.” Yahweh is a form of it that probably is its pronunciation, and Jehovah is a modern reconstruction of the name. It is the oldest four-letter word under taboo in history. In Greek it is rendered as Tetragrammaton.
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