On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 16:13, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda <[email protected]> wrote: > mivreshet is a new word invented by eliezer Ben Yehuda, based on the English > brush, in a Hebrew form. Bialik prefered the word mis'eret (from hair), but > it did not catch. On other times, Bialik won: his matos won over the aviron, > invented by Ben Yehuda, which also resembles the French word avoin. > The BenYehuda dictionary, available through Bialik institution, and an > on-going work of putting it online via the benyehuda.org project, would have > told you that, probably. The problem is that it is only updated till a bit > after Ben Yehuda's time. >
Thanks, Orna. Actually, I did hear that "brush" was the origin for mivreshet, which is why I went looking for an authoritive source. How about "pitria"? I took a brief look at the benyehuda.org website, but upon a quick eying did not see a relevant link. Searching in the google-search in the corner didn't help, either. I will spend some time with the site later this week, surely there must be something relevant there. Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
