[Avodah] Ruth on Shavuos

[Yitzhak Grossman]

On Sun, 24 May 2009 11:12:40 -0700
martin brody <martinlbrody at gmail.com> wrote:

...

> My own favourite is that the Torah is the Book of Loving Kindness, therefore
> we read Ruth because of the kindness she showed to Naomi and Boaz etc.,
> which is reflected in her name, not used often, but means kind. We are more
> used to its antonym, ruthless!

Some brief googling doesn't indicate that the Biblical name Ruth and
the English noun ruth are etymologically related.  Do you have a source?

Yitzhak
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