Pere: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Pere Porta <[email protected]> wrote:
> My proposal, Karl, points only --at least in a first step-- to nouns > ending in -WT (read: -oot in the English system) and within the boundaries > of, so to say, basic nouns as those I brought in my mail. > Oh, I see, this is not a question about Biblical Hebrew, as it is expressed in Tanakh. > > We could deal, for instance, with the following issues: > > 1. Why some have shewa in the first syllable while others have qamats. > You’ll have to ask the Masoretes, and study the dialect of a thousand years after Biblical Hebrew ceased to be the first language of the people. The same with your other questions. > 2. How they form their plural abolute. > 3. Those with qamats, do they keep this qamats in the declension? > 4. Which meaning they developed starting from the basic meaning of the > stem. > 5. Why some stems gave a noun in -WT while other stems of the same type did > not. > > And so on. > > This could become a discussion that could be of interest for many -or at > least a relevant part- of the members of this list, methinks. > You may be right that it is of interest to some on this list, but that means that I’ll have to bow out of the discussion, as I am interested in Biblical Hebrew for which even Masoretic Hebrew is a distraction. I tried years ago to master the Mastoretic points, but gave up over a decade ago when I realized that they are wrong as far as meaning is concerned often enough as to be untrustworthy. So with a friendly wave, I’ll have to bid adieu to this discussion. > > The threads we could debate are many. > And, of course, if someone has other proposals, please, do not hesitate to > bring them here. > > Indeed, debating on the Hebrew language and enlarging our knowledge of > it, is the declared purpose of this beloved b-hebrew list. > > Friendly, > > Pere Porta > (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) > > Karl W. Randolph. _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
