Forms of "Timothy"

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Respondents: 26 (This poll is closed)

  • Timothy (English) : 18 (36%)
  • Tim (German/Scandanavian) : 4 (8%)
  • Timo (Finnish) : 6 (12%)
  • Timothée (pron. “tee-moh-TAY”, French) : 2 (4%)
  • Timoteo (Spanish/Italian/Portuguese) : 5 (10%)
  • Timofei (pron. “tee-moh-FAY”, Russian) : 2 (4%)
  • Timotei (pron. same as French, Romanian) : 3 (6%)
  • Timotheos (Greek) : 7 (14%)
  • Timoti (Maori) : 1 (2%)
  • Tymoteusz (pron. “ti-maw-TEh-uwsh”, Polish): 2 (4%)

The Romantic language variations remind me of tomato

Timofei / Тимофей is pronounced more like tee-mah-FYAY. An unstressed O in Russian makes an ah sound, and the dipthong ей is pronounced like yay, or yeh-eey.

Well, I love [name_m]Timotheos[/name_m].

The simple [name_m]Timothy[/name_m] does it for me.