Beth vs Eliza - What's the difference?
beth | eliza |
name of the second letter of the Aramaic alphabet,
name of the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet,
name of the second letter of the Syriac alphabet,
, popular in the 19th century.
* 1993 Ruth Rendell: The Crocodile Bird : page 76:
As a proper noun beth
is a diminutive of the female given names elizabeth, elisabeth, and sometimes bethany also a formal given name or middle name.As a noun eliza is
church.beth
English
Alternative forms
* bet * beytNoun
See also
* ----eliza
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- "My real name's Eliza'. I've sometimes thought she called me after '''Eliza''' Doolittle in ''Pygmalion''." "Come again?" said Sean. "Because she intended to do the same thing with me as Pygmalion did with Galatea and as Professor Higgins did with ' Eliza Doolittle, he remade her to be the way he wanted her, or let's say he had an ideal and he tried to turn her into that." - - - "She said she didn't, anyway, when I asked her. She just liked the name."
