On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 16:05:23 -0500, James Spinti <[email protected]> wrote: > Philip, > > It is related to Bel in that the Akkadian dropped the Ayin over time > and the two vowels reduced to an e sound. Babel is from an entirely > different root.
I would make a slight amendment - The Akkadian form /bel/ is not the result of a contraction from *baal, but is the normal reflex of an earlier *ba`l, with the Akkadian /e/ vowel the normal result of an /a/ being coloured by the lost /`/ consonant. The hypothetical form *ba`l would regularly result in the Hebrew /ba`al/ (note the mil`el accent). I have to admit, I find it hard to see why on a phonetic basis a /`/ (`ayin, assumed to be realized phonetically as the pharyngeal [$(Q*~(B]) would colour a neighbouring [a] sound to [e], but that seems to be the pattern in Akkadian. > On Aug 7, 2012, at 3:18 PM, Philip Hardy wrote: > >> Is word Baal related to Babel or Bel? -- William Parsons $B&L&G(B $B&U&A&I&M&E&R&H&A&I(B, $B&A&K&K(B' $B&E&I&M&A&I(B.
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