Liam steht nicht in der Bibel — aber Eliam schon

Liam is not in the Bible. Not in Hebrew, not in Aramaic, not in Greek — the Scriptures were finished long before anyone in Ireland was called by this name. Liam is a worn-down Uilliam, and Uilliam is William, and William is Germanic. That is the whole answer, and it is an honest one. But let us hold the name a moment before we set it down. The sound it ends on — am — is one of the oldest…