Notes To Creationist Answers
Japheth: In the original Hebrew this is spelled IePeT, where the "P" and the "T" are aspirated to "Ph" {f} and "Th". Only the radicals are printed leaving IPT on documents. It is easy to see how Iapetos, and Iapetus, could pass to the Greek from this. Likewise, in the ancient Sanskrit Pra-Japati, is a direct transposition with a prefix, the "J" being a variant of "I". Iupater, and Jupiter are further Romanizations of the same root word, though they deemed it as Iu-Pater, Father Jove.
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