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in reply to a message by John
Nickname for Abraham, meaning "many" or "father of many"
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Also American short of a lot of Indian names starting with the sound abhi-, which morpheme is cognate with Germanic bi- and Latin ob- and implies motion towards, being against, in front, or surpassing.
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Thanks for your response. Would you know what its root in Sanskrit/Hindi is? and if it really means Sun in those languages.
Thanks!
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Like I said, the abhi part is just the prefix, I do not know it as a complete name in Hindi or Sanskrit. I will write again if I figure out which abhi- name, if any, means the sun.
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