【Sinai Sino Etymology 字源考】

 

 

西奈山  Mt. Sinai  (读音： 塞乃)

 

The general opinion of modern scholars is that the name "Sinai" is derived from the name of the Babylonian moon-god Sin. 

"the mountain of God"

ccording to the Book of Exodus, Mount Sinai (Hebrew: ?? ????, Har Sinai) is the mountain at which the Ten Commandments were given to Moses by God. In the Book of Deuteronomy, these events are described as having transpired at Mount Horeb. "Sinai" and "Horeb" are generally considered to refer to the same place。

Exodus is a Greek word meaning “departure.”.

 

Sina: Sinai, a mountain probably on the Sinai Peninsula

Original Word: Σιν?, τ?
Part of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable
Transliteration: Sina
Phonetic Spelling: (see-nah')  西拿
Short Definition: Sinai
Definition: Sinai, a mountain in Arabia.

Sinai is derived from Greek.

 the name "Sinai" is derived from the name of the Babylonian moon-god Sin. 

“Sinai's origin is Hebrew”.

Sinai of Sin (the moon god), called also Horeb, the name of the mountain district which was reached by the Hebrews in the third month after the Exodus. Here they remained encamped for about a whole year. 

The Sinim, a Far Eastern people, quite possibly the same as the Chinese (Isaiah 49:12)。

 

The prefix sino- comes from the Latin word Sinae, which is the Latin name for China. That word, like the English word China, ultimately derives from the Chinese Qin chao (the Qin dynasty, which unified China in 221 BC to create the first Chinese imperial dynasty) after passing through a few other languages.

From Late Latin Sinae (“the Chinese”), from Arabic ????? (al-?īn, “China, the Chinese”),

from Sanskrit ??? (cina, “China”)

 

European learnt China from India. And in the ancient time, Indian call itself "Indo" which means "homeland" and call its northern neighbor "cina" which means "a foreign country in the north".

Cina then was spelled as China, Chine, Sina, Sino, etc in different languages during the spreading.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sino-

forming element meaning"Chinese," 1879, from Late Latin Sinæ (plural) "the Chinese," 

from Ptolemaic Greek Sinai, from Arabic Sin"China," 

probably from Chinese Ch'in, name of thefourth dynasty of China (see China ).