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1. Introduction Throughout its long history, the Hebrew language has come under the influence of many other languages. English is the latest, and currently the most influential, source of influence on Hebrew, due to its abundant use in international communication and in the written materials of modern civilization. As the history of English influence on Hebrew is rather brief, and still ongoing, its results are as yet not finalized. What follows is a description of the historical circumstances and nature of the penetration of English into Hebrew. 2. History The beginning of the hist…

1. Introduction This article will focus on English loanwords in Modern Hebrew as spoken in Israel. These loanwords can be treated chronologically (i.e., by borrowing date), by discourse related groups (normative vs. high register, or slang), and by linguistic type (i.e., morphological, syntactic and semantic groups of vocabulary, as well as phonological aspects characterizing their transfer into Hebrew). Loanwords can be used in Hebrew as they are in English, without any adaptation, in a process t…

1. Introduction Personal names are an important part of the vocabulary in every language. Hebrew given names are usually based on meaningful lexemes. Personal names can be classified by origin (that is, whether they occur already in Biblical Hebrew, in the Diaspora literature, or only in Modern Hebrew), by their structures, and use for female and male individuals. Biblical names are considered at present traditional, usually reflecting names that have been passed down in a family through the gener…