Uri, Every word in hebrew has an etymology.
שלחן table is from board לוח בוהן which means thumb / "the digit that can go between" is related to בון and בין "to get in between" ראש meaning head comes from ראה meaning "the place of seeing" אבן meaning "stone = building material" similar to תבן straw; comes from בנה to build David Kolinsky ________________________________ From: Uri Hurwitz <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, November 29, 2012 9:12:26 AM Subject: [b-hebrew] [ b-hebrew] gen 28 sulam 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
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