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Re: Feminine form of Moshe
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According to these websites it seems that in Hebrew there are several feminine forms of Moshe:"Q) My daughter was named after my father whose name was Moshe. (...)
A)(...) In the book that I consulted, Davida doesn't appear although "Daliah" and the most popular feminine form of Moshe-- "Masha" do appear." http://www.yahrzeit.org/qan.htmlI don't know, however, if Masha is an independent name used as feminine form of Moshe because of formal similarity (that is very usual) or it is really a feminine form. "Masha - the name "Musha", a female version of Moshe (Moses), may have been Anglicized into Marsha."http://jewishwebindex.com/names.htm
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