Wasn't the circle a mark of the '(' 'Ayin' in all
early samples of the Alphabet?
Uri Hurwitz Great Neck, NY
hebrew] PQH vs PTCh
Bill wrschmidt wrote:
.........
In fact, in retrospect I don't think one can summarily dismiss the
possibility that the concept of opening in these verbs was originally
inchoate in the scribal practice of using a circle as a logogram to
represent the opening that Hebrew wordsmiths called peh, considering
that 1) the letter peh was by all accounts originally nothing but a
circle, and 2) words for mouths, per se, were derived from words that
referred more broadly to opening.
................
Bill
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