The Art of Literary Nomenclature

ORIGIN:
Hebrew, meaning “Jehovah is upright” or “Jehovah is perfect”.

VARIATIONS and NICKNAMES:
Yotam . . . and . . . that’s it, I guess.

REFERENCES IN LITERATURE:
– Jotham Powell, the Frome’s hired man, in Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome (written in 1911, but set in the 1890s or first few years of the 1900s).

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