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Ibn Ezra in his commentary to Shemos 2:10 says that the name Moshe was a translation of the Egyptian "Monius". I have, then, two questions:
1) Where does he get that his name was that? And 2) how is that related with something like "drawn from water"?
Immediately after stating that that was Moshe's name he tells us where he got it from:
ככה כתוב בספר עבודת האדמה הנעתק מלשון מצרים אל לשון קדרים גם ככה בספרי חכמי יוון
That is, he got it from earlier Egyptian and Greek books.
