ISAAC FRIED wrote: A Hebrew personal name is not a grammatically structured word. YOSEP need not be from the root YSP, but is reasonably the compound YO-SEP with the theophoric component YO = YA, as in YA-AQOB.One may equally well partition BENYAMIYN as BEN-YA-AMIYN.
I can hardly see a mother in her right mind calling her child Son-of- my-right-hand (hand made?), or Look-a-son, or He-will-laugh, ect. ----------------------------------------------------- ISHINAN: Actually, any mother would augur good to name her son "Bin Yamiyn" which means "blessed, prosperous, and or fortunate son --- cf. Arabic: al-Yumn Barakah ????????: ???????? ?????: ??????? ???????? ??????? ??????? ??? ??????: ????? ?????? ??? ????????? ???????? ???? ????????: ?????????? ?????? ???????? Hence, from this trilateral root "ymn" we derive at the etymology of the Yemen also known as Arabia Felix. Another derivation is the right hand which also happens to be a symbol of prosperity Ishinan Ishibashi _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
