 Where German or Russian are spoken, the emphasis has been on the perpetual character of his punishment, and thus he is known there as "Ewiger Jude" and "vechny zhid" (вечный жид), the "Eternal Jew".In French and other Romance languages, the usage has been to refer to the wanderings, as in French "le Juif errant", in Spanish "el judío errante" or in Italian "l'ebreo errante" and this has been followed in English from the Middle Ages, as the "Wandering Jew".In Finnish, he is known as "Jerusalemin suutari" ("Shoemaker of Jerusalem"), implying he was a cobbler by his trade.