Yes I am postulating that (A)KEM is related to (A)KAH. That is, if you pluralize -KAH to -KAYIM, it would naturally develop into -KEM. I don't have a theory for how the self-standing ATAH would engender the suffix -KAH. As for ATEM it seems more likely to me that it developed from ATAYIM, a possible edenic origin for TWO words like TWAIN and TWIN.
Jonathan Mohler On Jul 24, 2013, at 10:02 AM, Isaac Fried wrote: > This is not entirely clear to me. Do you mean שלך $ELKA, 'yours', which in my > opinion is the compound של-אכה $EL-AKAH, where AKAH is a variant of אתה ATAH; > and שלכם $ELAKEM, 'yours', which in my opinion is the compound של-אכם > $EL-AKEM, where AKEM is a variant of אתם ATEM, that is by itself the compound > את-הם AT-HEM? > > Isaac Fried, Boston University > > On Jul 24, 2013, at 12:07 AM, Jonathan Mohler wrote: > >> Let me digress one last time. This kind of morphophonemic development in my >> opinion is strong indication that the 2ms ending -CHA and 2mp ending -CHEM. >> Most likely something like -CHA --> *-CHAYIM --> -CHEM >> >
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