Is this found in Tanakh anywhere? Karl W. Randolph.
On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Stewart Felker <[email protected]>wrote: > Klein, in his etymological dictionary of Hebrew, says that כרך, 'wrap > around, surround' is "properly a shortened form of base כרר" ('to move back > and forth, turn'). But if this is true, what exactly is it shortened FROM? > To the best of my understanding, כרר is probably an extension of biradical > כר...and so the pilpel would be כרכר - for example וְדָוִד מְכַרְכֵּר, "and > David is dancing (whirling)" (there's also Ugaritic krkr 'to twist, > twiddle', Arabic karkara, 'he repeated'). > > Is this what he means? > > And this would be a pretty atypical process, right? But is there any > chance that there's somewhat of a similar case with Ugaritic kbkb, כוכב, > 'star' - cf. Akkadian kabābu 'to roast, burn'? (Klein refers to an Akkadian > ku'ū 'to roast', but the closest I've found to this is a kawûm (II) > (kamû?), 'to burn'.) > > > Stewart Felker > University of Memphis > > _______________________________________________ > b-hebrew mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew > >
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