yigal, uri, concerning abraham's name, and the H-infix hypothesis one direction is to examine the general use of similar infixes in BH.
a paper in "Morphology" (eds Booij, Ehrmann, Mugdan, de Gruyter 2000 ~pp 547-52) of an unidentified author made a typological study of many languages, to the effect that an infix may imitate a corresponding affix but its meaning may be more "intrinsic" than the affix. in our case, a candidate may be the definite article H- (??). moreover, the infix formation is a relative of the doubling formation. in other words, an H-infix may be tantamount of a doubling of a vowel A. consider the following examples of mostly BH infixes/doubles. i did not check each of them carefully - some may be based on wrong associations. 1. RB --> RHB,HRHYB HTRBRB, RBYBYM, RBBH and RBU) 2. NWR,NR,)WR (light) NHRH,NHYR (illumination); NHWR (aramaic) 3. BR BHYR; BRWR 4. ML MWHL; 5. ?? CHL CLYL, CLCL, CLWL 6. MR (aramaic: MR(H), arabic: MRH) MWHR 7. T$ HTY)$. 8. BWR B(R 9. BWR B)R 10. BRY (aramaic) B)R 11. ??? R($ R$R$ 12. RM R(M, R(MH 13. YD Y(D, NW(D 14. CR C(R, 15. ??? L(G LGLG 16. L$ L(S 17. MK M(K 18. KYB K)B 19. (BL?) HBL, BHLH 20. (D (hebrew) $HYD (arabic) 21. $Q $HQ $Q$Q 22. BW$ HB)Y$ BW$$ 23. Y$R $(R $R$RT 24. QR, KRH $(RH 25. YKL KHL (aramaic) 26. GWR G(R 27. ??? G(L GYLWL 28. QM Q)M (aramaic) 29. QD Q(D (arabic) 30 NPQ (aramaic) PHWQ 31 DWY/DWH D)B 32 )BH, )WH )HB 33 ??? R(C RCC, RCWC 34 NWY N)H, N)WH can this provide a plausible basis for a discussion on the H in abraham's name? (i have no similar comment to make on jim's R-hypothesis). nir cohen PS my own name provides another example: 35 KN, MKYN KHN YKWNN _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
