[b-hebrew] Karnaim
Uri Hurwitz
uhurwitz at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 11 22:32:46 EST 2004
Peter Kirk
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As the modern Hebrew speakers on this list have only confused me and
others, I asked a someone I know who attended a Hebrew school in Israel,
although actually a Christian Arab. According to him:
rays (plural) = keranim, construct karne
horns (plural) = keranot, construct karnot (?)
horns (dual) = karnaim, construct karne
He admits that his knowledge is imperfect. But would anyone choose to
correct him?
Peter Kirk
The above is fine, but I would add that im Mod. Heb. Keren is also commonly used for "fund" , and the pl. here is Keranot. Of course the correct transliteration of the letter Quf is a Q.
Uri
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