Hi Nir, You wrote: > most nouns in most ancient languages do not have a proven source within the dialect, nor can be established as loan words. <
On what grounds did you make this statement? Further you stated: > in hebrew i will mention $ULXAN (table), KOBA (hat), TEBA (arc), E$ (fire), NKD (grandson), NYN (great grandson), ZRT (pinky), BHN (toe), R($ (head), YD (hand), )BN (stone) etc. only by cross-reference with other dialects can this be validated.< Here you lost me completely: some of your examples are common Semitic, e.g. The words for head, and hand. Further, did you ever ask yourself why E$ (Fire), is feminine in Hebrew? Look it up in Akkadian where it is Ishatu - the f. marker 'T' is very much there. Nothing to add about the linguisticallly shaky ladder. Shaky only linguistically, we saw how well it served Jacob. Uri Hurwitz _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
