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01 / Meaning & origin
'Eva is recorded as a given name in Wiktionary.
Separate records with matching spellings: Eva (Afrikaans, Arabic), Éva (Danish, Finnish), Èva (Occitan)
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04 / Through time
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EVA— “life”
“The mother of all living”—received from the lips of Adam a name signifying life, sounding in the original like _Chavva_, as it began with a rough aspirate. It was not copied by any of her daughters for a long time, and when first the Alexandrian Jews came on it in their translation, they rendered it by _Zoe_ (life), in order to show the connection of the name with the prophecy; but afterwards in the course of the narrative they merely made it Eva, or in Latin the _Heva_ or…
“The mother of all living”—received from the lips of Adam a name signifying life, sounding in the original like _Chavva_, as it began with a rough aspirate. It was not copied by any of her daughters for a long time, and when first the Alexandrian Jews came on it in their translation, they rendered it by _Zoe_ (life), in order to show the connection of the name with the prophecy; but afterwards in the course of the narrative they merely made it Eva, or in Latin the _Heva_ or _Eva_, which English has changed into Eve.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part I, Chapter II (Patriarchal Names), Section I (Adam) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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06 / Behind the facts
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