Nir / Karl etc:
I quickly checked (while my 14 month old was screaming for me to pick her up)
my simple dictionaries for Akkadian, Syriac, Sabaic and Amharic.
Only Amharic had moth under the same heading as fire ?S(sibilant)(I don't
remember if it was S or Sh).
Clearly I am no expert - but my understanding is that Amharic has lost its
distinction between aleph, ayin, heh, and chaet.
Hence it was with its equivalent of AeSh = fire.
My understanding for the base meaning for \S - \Sh is "to perform / persist at
something"
Caterpillar's seem to be insatiable consumers, perhaps it has something to do
with that?
David Kolinsky,
Monterey, CA
________________________________
From: Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. <[email protected]>
To: K Randolph <[email protected]>
Cc: B-Hebrew <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] ($ (job 4:19)
karl,
really, looking a bit closer into the problem, i discovered that moth is
indeed considered
the
main destroyer of cloths. the difficulty in assessing the termites in this
respect is
that
today's clothes and houses are different than the BH
standard.
in general, termites eat cellulose: lumber, doors, furniture, cardboard,
paper, wallpaper
etc.
but as garments used to be made from cotton and linen mostly, i imagine
that they would
destroy them too. to do this, they build thin tunnels along the house
walls,
until they find
cellulose.
http://laundry.about.com/od/laundrybasics/ss/Insects-That-Destroy-Clothes-Insect-Clothes-Pests_8.htm
what they excel at is the other property you mentioned: building
houses.
nir
cohen
ps is ($ used in other semitic
languages?
On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 08:49:08 -0700, K Randolph
wrote
>
Nir:
>
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
karl,
>>
>>
>>>This is an animal that eats clothing Isaiah 50:9, and builds houses
Job
>>
27:18. This description fits a caterpillar that becomes a
moth.
>>
>>
how about
termites?
>>
>>
nir
cohen
>>
>>
> I’ll have to admit that I
never considered
termites.
>
> 1) because the dictionaries I worked
from all mentioned “moth” and caterpillars are immature moths (even in
English we talk about “moth eaten” when in reality it’s the caterpillars,
not the adult moths, that do the
damage).
>
> 2) Do termites have a reputation for eating cloth? I haven’t
heard of
it.
>
> Karl W.
Randolph.
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