Off topic, but I'm curious about the two dots over the letter u, which is something I've never seen before in French. Living in a German-speaking land, I'm used to seeing the same name written as Emmäus, where the umlaut serves not only to shift the sound of the a vowel but also to imply the emphasis goes there... Now I understand the normal French u-sound is naturally closer to the German ü than any English vowel without the need for a diacritical mark, so I wonder what effect the dots have here and if they appear in other French words, or is it only something rare such as, in this case, when importing a place name from Hebrew via Greek... Any experts in French orthography with an opinion on this?