THE NAMES DANIEL, DANILO, AND DANIELA: A STRATIFIED MODEL OF ONOMASTIC TRANSMISSION FROM HEBREW TO EUROPEAN LANGUAGES

This study presents a comprehensive philological, onomastic, and historical-linguistic analysis of the personal names Daniel, Danilo, and Daniela within the framework of a model of stratified onomastic transmission. The research traces the origin of these names from their Biblical Hebrew form דָּנִיֵּאל (Dāniyyēl), with a detailed examination of its internal morphological structure (dān + -ī + ʾēl) and its theophoric meaning “God is my judge.” Particular attention is devoted to the pathways of t